Netserver 5/60 LM

[Staale]

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

[harry d brown jr]

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?

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harry

[Staale]

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

[Gereon Wenzel]

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.

[Alicia White · Accepted solution]

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

http://www.bootdisk.com.

[harry d brown jr]

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 :-)))


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harry