[GTALUG] Poweredger server question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:39:54AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> This last bit of information was what enabled me to finish my system setup.
> 
> So - - - procedure followed:
> 
> 1. Ctrl R to get into the RAID utility
> 2. Use Ctrl-N to get to the Virtual Disk page
> 3. Move cursor to the line (controller) that has the word 'foreign' in it.
> 4. F2 will then take to where it asks if you want to initiailize and
> something else that I have now forgotten.
> 
> With the initialization one can now set up a new array (in my case a RAID 1
> (for data security)).
> 
> So thank you all for your various tips and assistance - - - I now have a
> server with 6 disks running OpenMediaVault.
> 
> (Now if there just were someway to get this ancient BIOS to recognize discs
> of great than 2 TB in size and if there were a way to update the BIOS
> without needing to run MS windows things would be real real good!)

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=16RCK
says you can get the PE2950-020700CBIOS.exe file and put it on a USB
bootable key with DOS (freedos should work) and use that to flash
the BIOS.

Pretty sure unetbootin can create such a thing for you.

-- 
Len Sorensen