[GTALUG] Poweredger server question

[o1bigtenor]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>

Oh goody - - - something else to figure out!

Dee
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