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Title: Installing SME server
Post by: TheKinG on November 04, 2004, 06:22:02 PM

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 :-o ...
Can anybody tell me what to do, to install SME without even with a windows disk!!!

Thanx

The King

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: RavenIV on November 05, 2004, 12:28:51 AM

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


cheers

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: TheKinG on November 05, 2004, 04:41:21 PM

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!

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: RavenIV on November 06, 2004, 01:50:39 AM

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.

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: TheKinG on November 06, 2004, 08:51:59 AM

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!

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: the_mad_prof on November 06, 2004, 10:27:49 PM

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.

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: azche24 on November 07, 2004, 08:19:38 PM

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.

Title: Installing SME server
Post by: electroman00 on November 08, 2004, 12:27:03 AM

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.