RE: Installing Win2K on Dell PE 6400
- From: "grantscott " <grant123456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:23:07 -0000
Hi,
If you have the Dell Poweredge setup CD this should move you closer to getting
it configured. This CD should allow you to prepare the drives in any
configuration and help you install the OS. Other than that, talk to Dell
technical support who can probaly sort you out. Remember that you can download
all the setup files that you need from Dell's website (you'll need the servers
service tag).
Regards,
Grant Scott
IT Manager
Berlitz Brighton
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP [mailto:SAP@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 December 2002 21:06
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: Installing Win2K on Dell PE 6400
Hi Guys,
Its an off-subject question but please help if you can.
I want to install Win2K server on a Dell PE 6400 Server with 2 PERC 2/DC cards.
Each card has 4 hard disks connected (total of 8, each disk of 36 GB), I have
inherited this server from my .pred.eccesor and no idea why he wanted this
server with 2 controllers in the first place, my presumption that he wanted to
have a RAID 50, that is RAID5 on controller 0 mirrored to the other RAID5 on
controller 1.
My first question is, Can I have the system partion on a RAID.
If I can, then I would like to have 2 partitions from the first controller and
configure the RAID 5 with one disk as hot standby.
And only one huge partition on the other PERC Controller card with RAID 5 and
one hard disk as hotstandby.
I am following the DELL, PERC manual but it looks like its going to take me a
long time.
If some one out there has worked on this type of cinfiguration, please let me
know how to do what I am intending.
Thanks folks
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