RE: Building the HP ML110 G4

["ReynoldsB" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for the advice! Very much appreciated!



I have spent the past 24 hours formatting the drives all to no avail! Still
says no mass media present!



I did not think I would ever miss the floppy!



The instructions say use a USB floppy drive so why does this not work? If
it
is impossible then I want my money back from HP for telling me to buy one!



I will try the nLite, sounds good.



B.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jamie Whitehorn
Sent: 21 February 2008 17:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Building the HP ML110 G4



As Paul said nLite (http://www.nliteos. <http://www.nliteos.com> com) would
be a excellent tool to try - it takes care of the process of slipstreaming
the drivers into the installation disk. The basic process is:
1. Install nLite on a PC somewhere.
2. Copy the contents of the Windows 2003 installation CD to a folder
3. Download the drivers to a folder
4. Download any service packs, hotfixes you want to include to a folder
5. Run nLite and it will walk you through the process, asking you where the
various files are. It then integrates all the files for you and creates an
.iso file.
6. Burn the .iso file to a CD
7. Boot from the CD and install the O/S
I created one from W2003 with all the drivers and SP2, and it worked a
treat.
HTH, Jamie

--------------- Original message ---------------
Original msg sent Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:55:03 -0000 by ReynoldsB
> Thanks Paul, yes I understand the drivers are not taken from the
> floppy at this point but as you say the drives are not formatted
> which is why I am now trying to format them which should be
> finished in about the next week!!!!!!
>
> I have not looked but I think it is not possible to install a
> floppy onto the mobo? And I have no idea how to "slip
stream" the
> necessary files into the CD? Where would I put them?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> B.
>
> PS do not forget Grand Designs is on in a few minutes!
>
> _____
>
> From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
[mailto:ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com] On
> Behalf Of Paul Gordon Sent: 20 February 2008 20:46 To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Building the HP ML110 G4
>
> Brian, I had similar scenario not long ago... in a nutshell, you
> can use the USB drive to *successfully* find the driver floppy via
> the F6 option during the *text mode* portion of the setup - as you
> have done.
>
> This however, does not actually copy the RAID drivers off the floppy
> onto the HDD, - as the HDD hasn't been formatted at that point.
> What it
> does do is make a note that the drivers need to be read from the
> floppy
> later on during the setup process, after the HDD is available...
>
> However, when that later point arrives, the USB device is no longer
> available... - I *think* this was probably being caused by issues of
> whether the USB support was provided by the mobo BIOS, or by the
> Windows USB driver subsystem. - I think in my case it was "in-
> between" these two states, and thus there was *no* functioning
USB
> support at the time, & thus the USB floppy could no longer be
read,
> hence the RAID drivers couldn't be loaded.
>
> The *only* way I was able to get round this (it being a laptop, so
> temporarily whacking in a standard floppy drive not an option), was
> to
> burn a new Windows install CD with the necessary RAID driver
> slipstreamed in, thus no load from floppy was then required...
>
> Possibly not exactly what's happening in your case, but may give you
> some ideas....
>
> HTH
>
> Paul G.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. com
> [mailto:ukha_d@yahoogroups. com]
> On Behalf Of ReynoldsB Sent: 20 February 2008 20:04 To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] Building the HP ML110 G4
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for this but I am having a job creating an array than Windows
> SBS
> 2000
> and Windows 2003 Server can see.
>
> I have enabled the RAID in the BIOS and created the array using the
> F6
> option during boot up. When the servers boot the drive is seen and
> optimised
> but when I start to load the server software it asks for the
> drivers to
> be
> installed via a USB Floppy which I do okay but still windows can not
> find a
> mass storage device to install onto so gives you the F3 option to
> quit!
>
> Could someone point me to the correct RAID drivers in case I have
> got
> the
> wrong ones?
>
> I have now gone into the disk utility and selected format which is
> now
> on
> 20% which has taken about 3 hours so far..
>
> Any suggestions would be very well received!
>
> Thanks all,
>
> B.



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