Guest ellas Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 they expect people with a little knowledge of computers to be installing not some aussie from the outback :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 LOL ! :D C'mon, I need the info. It's like the M$ helpdesk in here. :D I've been doing this since 8am while you lot have been swanning about.they expect people with a little knowledge of computers to be installing not some aussie from the outbackIf I were selling a tube of green paint it would say on the outside ' Grasp cap and turn anticlockwise to open. Squeeze to eject paint. ' When you'd taken the cap off you'd see green paint , not another tube inside with contents unknown and no instructions. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 sounds ok but remember you got to set the raid array have you decide what array you going to set up,you might be better of with JBOH at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 I can cancel out now and go back to the boot sequence wherein I can access the array settings. Shall I do that first ?JBOH ? I just want a mirrored drive. What's JBOH ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 JBOH = Just Bunch of Hard Drives (thanks ellas for that one)CPU Rises 5deg every half an hour....sure thats not your brain temp as you get closer to finishing?!?!?! - seriously, thats not right, did you use the thermal pad?20gb sounds plenty for the OS.....you should have already set up the array settings....you said earlier in the thread that it was done!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Well, there was just a screen with 'Select RAID type' and I selected ' Mirrored' However, there appears to be another facility just for 'Arrays' but I'm beginning to feel that it's for IDe arrays and not my SATA. My boot screen lists my two drives as mirrored so shall I go ahead with the partition ? I owe you one. ellas. :DEDIT. CPU seems stable at 55. I was just trying to get some emergency service in here. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 please leave your penchant for firemen at your door moonmin......and as for giving ellas one....well thats between you and him and not the rest of us!As you appear to have the drives mirrored, i would go ahead with the partition and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Cheers, Grim, I'm going for it. Incidentally, and for future reference on the F6 mystery;The F6 key is what gets you the "S" prompt. If you hadn't hit the F6 key, it would not have stopped at that screen.Now why didn't it say so ? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 well it assumes that the person building is not a xxxx swillling sheep shearer!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 That's bloody discrimination ! :D Partitioned ( one 20Gig) but halted. ' Could not read from the selected boot disc'I assume that it's looking at the SATA drive with nothing on it yet. Do I go back into the BIOS and set it to 'CD-ROM' ? Or shall I go tend my flock with a couple of cold tinnies ? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 as the reaper says just a bunch of harddrive the one disadvantage of mirrored is if one drive fails you lose the data on both drives this does not happen with JBOH so its more reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 boot from cd-rom (the round shiny thing with WINDOWS written on it)with your install disc inside the drive (the tray bit that comes out when you press the button and looks like a drink holder).Ensure that your first boot device is set to CD-ROM and the second device is set to RAID.Good luck bruce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 yes of course set it to boot from the cdrom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 I've already sussed that if one drive fails you've got the advantage of the other as back-up. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 yeah your right with the mirrored array its the striping array you lose data if one goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 You bunging me a cheap point ? :D How about this- I'm installing 2k to the 20Gig partition:'You have chosen to install 2k on a partition that already contains another O/S. If you continue it might cause the other O/s to malfunction ' :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 yeah gave you a point but now taking 5 away what have you done,just cancel then and see what happens, it probaley did install the first time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 It must have just been looking at the Setup files necessary to get me to the 'S' prompt. The message is therefore misleading and guaranteed to freak out us muttonheads. :D I did slip up though. I got 2K installed but realised halway that my mouse wasn't connected. I'm on Standard Eastern Time and my computer name is a number. :DI'll have to go back and start over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 you can change both of those things once your os is installed......dont start again just for the sake of it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted November 23, 2003 Report Share Posted November 23, 2003 Check everything up n running now then in the months to come you can reformat/reinstall after breaking it !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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