[olug] any proliant gurus out there?

[neal rauhauser]

  Craig Wolf has kindly provided me with a Proliant SmartStart 5.40 CD
for my Proliant 7000.

  If I run CPQErase then boot from CD I get an initial config option
where I can spec the OS to be installed. I've tried a couple of
different ones but no matter which I pick the machine reboots and
doesn't boot from the CD into the config utils.

  I found some .dat files on the CD that appear to be a set of bootable
floppies, the first floppy boots but comes back with an 'error 76' and
refuses to proceed.


   As far as I can see the last resort is plugging a SCSI drive into the
non raid controller, installing win2k or something, then loading the
array config util on that OS. I *really* don't want to go to the trouble
of doing this if there is a simple way to coax the CD to work.

  Hello? Anyone? Its OK, I won't out you for being a recovering Compaq
user if you tell me the secret.


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