What I would do is this:
used G4U to clone the other machine if it is identical,
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
G4U works very well, and boots Free/NetBSD, it boots from CDROM, and
backs up to an FTP server which you will have because you have the other
machines.
Then G4U boot the new machine and slurp the image back down....
This may work, its slow to create the images and needs a lot of disk
space on the ftp server, but slurping the data back is fast....
This would give you an image of the install which you can use for DR as
well...
P.
Jonathan wrote:
> No, in fact I didn't. Odd. I did have to pass a crapload of bootup
> commands (noscsi among them), but I have no record of what I used...
>
> Thanks fer the help...
>
> Jonathan
>
> Peter Farrow wrote:
>
>> But.... did you use software RAID on the other identical machine you
>> installed with the older disk?
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>> Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately the "Raid controller " that the hardware says that
>>> comes with, uses a software driver in order to perform the raid
>>> functions. So to make the long story short just use the OS soft raid
>>> functionality
>>>
>>> Have fun.
>>> Good day
>>>
>>> Nikos
>>>
>>> On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> List:
>>>>
>>>> Good morning. I'm hoping someone is still up who can lend me an ear.
>>>> I'm sitting on the floor of Mae West surrounded by disassembled
>>>> servers,
>>>> frustrated out of my mind. Same as last weekend. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I'm having a weird issue. I have a Dell 420SC in front of
>>>> me. It's a fine machine, brand new. p4 2.8 800Mhz bus, 1GB DDR2
>>>> (2x512) and dual 80GB drives. I've used the onboard raid to build a
>>>> raid-0+1 (mirror) raid array. The problem is, it's telling me as soon
>>>> as I load up the setup for CentOS 4 that no drives are available and
>>>> that I should load up some.
>>>>
>>>> Odd.
>>>>
>>>> I have three machines running CentOS 4 over here with the identical
>>>> specs, and identical settings. One even has the exact same
>>>> configuration, including raid setup, and it's running happily. But it
>>>> was installed from and older CentOS 4 disk (got scratched). I've got
>>>> about 12 more to do tonight. How is it possible that the same machine
>>>> with concurrent serial numbers won't load RAID? Is there some trick?
>>>>
>>>> I'm really at a loss on this one. I'm on the 14th floor. Now if I
>>>> could get one of these windows to open, I think I have a very easy
>>>> solution...
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any experience with this? Is there some trick to getting
>>>> these 420SC's to load CentOS?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
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