Compaq Proliant 7000

[jbruno]

We are going to use this as a raid server for important programs/data files.

We installed 16 SCSI Drives (18.2g each)

We purchased 2 200gb IDE drives ($49 each with rebates) which we intend to mirror.

1 IDE drive id currently installed and a CD drive. We were able to install Window Server 2000, however, we can not get the server to boot from the IDE.

We also cannot get into the bios setup by any key.

We believe that we might need to create a bootable CD of "HP Smart Start" to get everything going. We downloaded this file and it is an ISO file. We need to know how to burn a bootable ISO CD.

What is the easiest program that can do this.

Any other ideas?

Thank you,

[glc]

Any CD burning program that's capable of burning from images will work. Open the ISO in the software as an image and burn it. In Nero Express, it's Disk Image or Saved Project.

I hope you set up all those SCSI drives as a RAID 5.

What exact RAID controllers does that thing have? You may need a card to mirror a couple IDE drives, I sure wouldn't trust a software mirror.

[jbruno]

Originally Posted by glc Any CD burning program that's capable of burning from images will work. Open the ISO in the software as an image and burn it. In Nero Express, it's Disk Image or Saved Project. I hope you set up all those SCSI drives as a RAID 5. What exact RAID controllers does that thing have? You may need a card to mirror a couple IDE drives, I sure wouldn't trust a software mirror.

Thank you for the feedback. I am trying to use Winimage and I am unsure exactly how to burn the ISO.

The ISO is in a folder on our desktop and we just want to send this to the disk. Do you just copy the ISO file straight or do you "extract" the ISO files and copy those files?

Regards,

[glc]

None of the above. You need CD burning software such as Nero, Roxio, Sonic, NTI, or whatever. Winimage cannot burn a CD and the builtin XP burning engine cannot burn an ISO.

[jbruno]

Originally Posted by glc None of the above. You need CD burning software such as Nero, Roxio, Sonic, NTI, or whatever. Winimage cannot burn a CD and the builtin XP burning engine cannot burn an ISO.

Getting Nero. Will update.