DRAC : Unable to use it for OS installation ? is it normal ?

Rainer Traut tr.ml at gmx.de
Fri Oct 31 05:42:07 CDT 2008


I just did that, updated a couple of PE2950 with el4 to el5 via ISO 
mounted from my workstation.

Be sure to use the latest firmware for the drac, I think it is 1.40 and 
1.50 for drac 4 and 5.

Florent Gilain schrieb:
> Hello all,
> 
> On my PE 1850/1950/2950, i have a DRAC and i was thinking i could use it for connecting a remote CDROM/ISO to boot on it and install the OS.
> 
> but this doesn't seem to work ? did somebody has already succeed in doing this ?
> 
> for example, I tryed to update a remote ESX from 3.5 to 3.5u2 using the 3.5u2 ISO bootalbe cdrom, and it failed too..
> 
> thanks
> 
> Florent



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