Help: Linux Installation on PowerEdge T605

[Davide Ferrari]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 16:33:52 Brian McGrew wrote:
> Wow, everything fails!  It sounds to me like you’ve got a bad CD drive.
>  You have to boot the system somehow and CD is the only way to do it unless
> you’ve got a netboot/tftp server up and running.  I hae a whole rack of
> 2950’s and saw similar errors on one with a bad CD.  I ended up netbooting
> it and replaced the drive later.

Sorry but if you haven't got a netboot infrastructure and the CD drive (or 
cable, or IDE controller) gone astray, it's really easier to use an external 
USB CD/DVD drive, and try again with the same exact media, just to discard one 
possible cause.
Personally I had a bad CD drive in oen PowerEdge and finally we've got it 
installed with... floppy disks :) (it was an ancient server)

Cheers

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Davide Ferrari
Atrapalo.com System Administrator