I’m hoping someone can help me with the following issue. I have a Dell PowerEdge R410 and basically the Optical Drive has failed when I have been given the server. I have installed 2 SATA drives and want to install Ubuntu 11.04; however, each time I have tried i.e. using bootable .iso on USB it … Read more
I’m having trouble installing Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS on a hardware RAID-1 setup on a new Dell PowerEdge R330 Server. I’m using a bootable USB made by Rufus-2.18. (I’m a newb to server setups, so please excuse me for anything ignorant I missed or did) The server has 2 480GB SATA SSD hard drives. The … Read more
I am attempting to install Centos 6 or 7 on a backup server Proliant DL380p Gen 8 with a p420i controller. The problem is when I use the intelligent provisioning built in to setup the raid and such, it only gives me 4 options to install Microsoft Windows, RedHat Linux, VMWare ESX, or VMWare custom … Read more
I’m doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive and a preseed file on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). This preseed file contains multiple rules, including the configuration of partman-auto that automates the (custom) partitioning of the server’s hard drive. On the servers ML110 and ML310, at the beginning … Read more
Can’t get an HP 8200 Elite Small Form Factor to boot from USB. It’s done so in the past & the USB boot drive works in a different machine (HP 8440p laptop). Have tried upgrading BIOS (from 2.09 to 2.15a, then back to 2.14a) with no luck. USB drive appears in BIOS “Device Configuration” list, … Read more
I’ve found a few posts on this site, however my situation is different. I have a new Dell server with no OS installed. I would like to install Windows 2008 Web Edition. I have a few USB ports and Ethernet. No CD or DVD drives. Is this article the best & only way to proceed? … Read more
I’m doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive and a preseed file on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). On the ML110 and ML310, the hard drive is in /dev/sda and the USB drive takes /dev/sdb. While on the servers ML350, the USB drive takes the /dev/sda and the … Read more
I’m trying to find out what existing options there are out there to boot a machine into a remote desktop (RDP). Ideally the user would have a USB key and just plug it into the machine and boot via it establishing an RDP connection to their virtualised enviroment (stored on a server). Essentially the anticipated … Read more
I’m trying to run ESXi 6 off the Internal USB 2.0 port on a HP Microserver Gen8. No matter what I try it will not make any attempt to boot the internal USB to load the hypervisor. I installed ESXi 6 with the customised ProLiant HP image (Jan 2016). The steps I took to do … Read more
I have 8 HP ProLiant DL380 servers that are mounted in a data center. I have to deploy Windows Server 2016 Datacenter operating system on all of them using a particular customer’s (modified) ISO. Unfortunately, the only way I can access this installation ISO is inside the DC security zone, which means I will have … Read more
