topic Netserver 5/60 LM in Netservers

Netserver 5/60 LM

Staale — Sun, 07 Apr 2002 17:47:19 GMT

Hello
I recently purchased a old Netserver LM system from my school that I plan to use for a small website I run.

When I try to start up the machine it wont recognice the harddisk raid and i get an error telling me there is no booting device.I also get a error message saying non of the harddisks is responfing.

Has anybody got a clue what can be wrong and if anybody has the original disk and/or manuals they can mail to me il be so pleased.

Thanks in advance,
Staale

Re: Netserver 5/60 LM

harry d brown jr — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:00:33 GMT

Is it possible someone formated the disks so that there isn't any OS on them?

Have you tried booting from a floppy?

Do you plan on running redhat on it?

live free or die
harry

Re: Netserver 5/60 LM

Staale — Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:45:17 GMT

Yes i belive the hardisk raid has been formated.I plan to install freebsb but if you think redhat would be better i think it would be a good choice. I dont have any bootdisks and im not sure how to get them.

Staale

Re: Netserver 5/60 LM

Gereon Wenzel — Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:50:50 GMT

If the machine got the HPDA Disk Controller installed You won't get BSD nor RedHat recognize that controller.
If DOS Fdisk don't detect any disk this may be caused by a non configured RAID array.
There should be a BIOS message at boot
You will have to run HPs RAID Configuration Utility to configure logical drives.

Re: Netserver 5/60 LM

Alicia White — Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:11:46 GMT

You can download self-extracting files to create boot disks at:

http://www.bootdisk.com.

Re: Netserver 5/60 LM

harry d brown jr — Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:19:41 GMT

Staale,

Actually, I'd suggest a linux/bsd version that meets your requirements. I've had people tell me that they like one "flavor" over another, but that's usually just a philosophical discussion. I've personally have redhat, and I've played with an older version of debian, but in my mind anything other than M$ is worth it, even a machine that is powered off :-)))

live free or die
harry