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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Andrew Roberts on July 11, 2001, 07:13:37 PM
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I'm setting up two servers (for different locations). Specs are as follows:
CUSL2 mobo
PIII 1.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
2x20GB Maxtor DiamondMax Drives on the first IDE channel (primary master & primary slave)
CD-ROM & Segate tape drive on the 2nd IDE channel.
2x3906B NICs
I'm setting up these boxes as server/gateways, with RAID 1 (I know about the performance hit by having both HDDs on one Channel). Everything installed fine on the first box, and e-smith is running happily. However, the second box (identical to the first one, AFAIK) is giving me nothing but grief during the install process.
Problem #1
When I try to install for RAID 1, I get the error
"An error occured transferring the install image to your hard drive. You are probably out of disk space."
Problem #2
The installation seems to run into problems when the screen shows "Transferring install image to hard drive...." The progression bar runs to about 1/3 complete, and then stalls. The HDD appears to be running, and the CD busy light comes on intermittently. I let the thing run for a good half hour before shutting things down.
I'm guessing that this is a hardware related problem. I did check the drives with the Maxtor "enermax" tool and they tested clean. I even installed Windows98se without a hitch.
Any hints or advice about how to track down the problem would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers,
Andrew
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I hate replying to my own thread, but I did manage to solve my problem. After repeated attempts at installing, I finally received a "signal 11" error. After searching through the phorums, I figured out that this error meant that there was either a problem with the CD (e.g. corrupted files) or there was a problem with a device.
This is what I did:
1. Verified the CD burn with the MD5SUM program. (Checked ok).
2. Ran a disk utility on hda (Checked ok).
3. Ran a disk utility on hdb (Checked ok)
4. I removed the CD-ROM and installed a backup drive (an old 4x drive) -- EUREKA!
It seems that there is a problem with either the original CD-ROM, or the way it reads my burned CD. Perhaps the disc had a fingerprint on it or something... *shrug*
Curious that the drive in question had no problems reading Win98 install discs or other software install discs. BTW, the drive I had problems with is a Creative 52x.
Cheers,
Andrew
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you mention that the win. cd seemed to always work ok.... ok my 2 cents worth
I have noticed that sometimes cd's I burn myself on either my hp or sony burner seem to be a litte harder to read on some systems than say the windows me cd. why? I dunno... perhaps the big boys burn deeper and harder than what we buy for our systems? But I have noted there does seem to be sometimes a diff...
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