[juneau-lug] Re: JLUG Server

I've got an old machine still running win98 or win95.  Send me the exe 
and I'll try to make some floppies (if I can find some usable floppies).

James Zuelow wrote:
> Update:
>
> I played with the server over the weekend.  Getting it out of the garage and
> upstairs was a little tougher than I remembered -- after I got it to the
> living room, I read the little sticker on the side that said the weight of
> the server starts off at 93 pounds.  Each drive weighs about a pound, so all
> together it was about 99 pounds.  (Here I thought I was having trouble with
> 60 pounds!)  This isn't a server you want to put on the top shelf of a
> Gorilla rack.
>
> The drives appear fine from the limited amount of testing I could do with
> them.  I am limited to looking at a rather limited RAID controller utility
> from BIOS.  The RAID controller was set up for two partitions - a RAID 5 with
> the existing drives, and a RAID 1 set up on the empty bays.  I brought the
> machine back up to 6 drives, and configured a single RAID 5 (about 85GB in
> total).
>
> To boot a CD, I have to get to the BIOS.  Right now it will boot from floppy
> or the drive array only.
>
> These old Compaq servers should have an SMS partition on the drives with tools
> to actually get to the BIOS, which was not there.  (Probably the OS and
> service partition was on the missing drives from the array.)  Compaq has a
> tool to set up floppy disks to install this stuff, but as usual it's not just
> a zip file or tarball but a Windows executable that uncompresses things and
> writes them to disk.  I do have two Windows machines available at home, both
> of which are Windows XP Service Pack 2 with all patches.  Too bad, that.  The
> Compaq utility won't work on XP, even in compatibility mode, because of the
> way it wants to create the floppies.  So I need to find a Win9x or perhaps
> Win2k box to create the floppies.
>
> =46rom there I can restore the SMS partition before putting an OS on it.  
> (Yes,
> I can get the floppy images for Debian Etch easily, but I'd prefer a fully
> functional server with a working "F10" key before installing the OS.)
>
> Once I can boot from CD I'll run it through memtest86+, a thorough test of the
> RAID array, and put the base OS on it.
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