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February 7, 2005
More RAID musings
OK,
so I have been in Florida for the last 9 days and away from my RAID project. Haven't really had a chance to get to it yet (tomorrow), but here are some things that I learned recently:
1. Having the Athlon64 means you really should have a 64 bit operating system.
2. I had planned to install Suse 9.1 which I duly bought and paid for. But the minute you stick in the CD, on boot it has this nice message "hey really nice computer, but do you realize you are about to install 32 bit software on a 64 bit computer?". So I need a new build.
3. so I go to the Suse site and see 9.2 has a full 64 bit port. No problem. Two download options. A DVD disk image (3.4gig) or a CD disk image (400mb) that will install the parts you choose from an FTP connection. I download both. Takes me about 10 hours while playing a 128k web radio stream. I probably should have downloaded them in serial rather than parallel.
4. I am faced with a disk image file that needs to be unpacked, so out to the internet for some software. Downloaded a couple and unpacked the .ISO file.
5. Used the Drag and Drop software included in the Sony Vaio to burn the contents of the ISO to a DVD. 45 minute burn.
6. Stuck in RAID box and hit power. Media not recognized. I figured that it was because of the DVD format not supported by the Bios.
7. Opened the ISO for the CD image, burned it to a CD, plugged in the Ethernet cable to the RAID box and rebooted. Media not recognized.
8. I opened the CD image and the SUSE 9.1 factory disk and they looked the same. I can't figure why it won't boot.
9. Gave up on Suse, went to download the 64 bit Windows XP. 3 hours. unpack the ISO image, burn to a CD.
10. reboot the RAID. Media not recognized. I give up.
11. Talked this morning to our IT guy about the OS. He said the problem was that the standard CD burning software won't make the CD bootable. IT doesn't copy the right OS stuff to the header secton. So the CD will look the same in Explorer, but not be bootable. AH. So I need Nero pro which will in fact create a bootable CD. So that is my next step. I am going to try to do this with Windows XP 64.
Posted by Martin at February 7, 2005 2:13 PM
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