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Title: Don't have a cdrom
Post by: Alijah on August 13, 2002, 07:28:30 AM

The system  i want to install E-smith on is kind of hard to work on. The CD-Rom has been removed. Is there a way to install without a cdrom. There is a floppy drive and 6.4 GB HD.
Thanks
Alijah

Title: Re: Don't have a cdrom
Post by: Dan on August 13, 2002, 08:48:52 AM

Save yourelf the aggravation and install one temporarily.  Thats what I did on my server.  Once you've finished the install you can remove the CDROM drive without any problems.

Title: Re: Don't have a cdrom
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on August 13, 2002, 11:03:16 AM

Hmmm well when I did that SME just hung at the MITEL splash screen, but once i replaced the cdrom, it botted fine, removed, hung again, replaced fine, etc etc etc.

Cyrus Bharda

Title: Re: Don't have a cdrom
Post by: Phil Hyde on August 13, 2002, 08:17:27 PM

Does your BIOS auto-detect the drives?  Or, are they manually set?  The reason I ask is that your BIOS might still think you have a CD-ROM, and it might be telling SME server that you have a CD-ROM.

Just something to check.

Otherwise, there is probably a boot configuration file or setting somewhere that is telling SME to mount your cdrom.

--phil

Title: Re: Don't have a cdrom
Post by: Michael Smith on August 14, 2002, 09:42:20 AM

My home file server runs quite well with no floppy drive or CDROM now that it's done ... I tinkered in the BIOS to make sure that all drives but the hard drive are set to NONE and the system looks to the hard drive to boot first.  The server sure does look sleek with no drives!