Topic: Installing SME server

[TheKinG]

Hi there,

I've got an old pc, built in a ATAPI cd-rom player and a extra NIC. This pc is clean, no OS installed. I created the bootdisk and burned the instal-cdrom. When i insert the boot disk (bios boot from A-drive 1st) and put the install cdrom, nothing happens. The cd-rom player is not recornised. Only when I start up with Windows startup diskette it can see the cd-rom player ...
Can anybody tell me what to do, to install SME without even with a windows disk!!!

Thanx

The King

[RavenIV]

please give us more details.
what kind of CDROM?
on which controller is the drive?
version of SME?


cheers

[TheKinG]

My cd-rom player is a Creative Quadspeed cd-rom
It s attached as slave on the fist socket of my mainboard ( "0" )
Te version of SME is 6.0

Thanx!

[RavenIV]

try to activate "boot from CDROM" in your BIOS.
then the PC should recognize the CD and boot from it.
the SME-install-CD is bootable.

cheers.

[TheKinG]

Hi There,

I did try that but my bios doesn't allow me to boot from cd-rom, maybe because it does not recornises the cd-rom?

Thanx!

[the_mad_prof]

Ok, for the record your hard drive dhould be primary master and CD should be secondary master.  That aside

You say windows can see the disk - this susggests that it isn't a hardware problem.

Try changing the configuration to that mentioned above and re-running setup.  If you find that the system still cannot see the cdrom I would be inclined to cheat and "borrow" the optical drive from your main PC to se  if that offers more success.

[azche24]

Hi,

You can also try to get an external USB-CDROM. E-smith/lycoris is one of that precious operating systems, that boot from external USB-Devices without any problems.

I do not even think of using floppies or CD-Roms in my servers, since i discovered that.

[electroman00]

You might want to try burning the iso @ 8X

That should work.

Old drives think a 24x burn disk is blank.

Make sure you mark the burn speed on the disk.