On 07/12/2011 09:59 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a standard atapi 5.25 DVD drive in place of the CD drive.centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive. USB is not anoption. What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install there. I had to "tweak a few things" because of how the install process worked, and the differences in hardware between this DVD-capable system and my target systems, but, after said futzing, I had a HD that would boot my target systems, and I could dupe the drive for all the product we make. After that, the drive is a "programmable part", and the code we run is an application we update in the field... ...if you're a server environment, your hurdles will not be the same as mine. Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --
Stephen Clark NetWolves Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.netwolves.com |
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