LNM failed to format hard drives

[wesleyw]

Started the install then just after typing in the serial numbers it started the formatting of hard drives failed this action and stopped. Any ideas guys?

 

Wes

[Dos_Box]

Sorry, you've lost me. You've booted from the DVD, been asked for your Server 2003 CD then Windows XP CD. I don't recall any formatting going on. I'll have to check.

[Geoff]

What is your hardware configuration for your hard drive(s). Are they something wierd like SATA/SCSI and/or RAID?

[wesleyw]

2 x SCSI drives one partitioned into 2 1 8gb 1 56gb and the other as 1 73gb not setup in a raid config though.

 

Wes

[Dos_Box]

Are you using SCSI or SATA drives?

[Dos_Box]

Damm, Geoff beat me to it!

[Geoff]

I think you need to press F6 at the inital screen and load your SCSI drivers from a floppy disk. Your SCSI Card/Server should of come with such a disk.

[wesleyw]

Should have known lol just like the old 2K installation okay then.

 

Wes

[m25man]

Use the F6 Driver to get your disk on-line, copy this text to a winbom.ini file on the floppy and leave it in the drive.

By editing the values you can have the disk on you LNM server set up exactly how you want it.

 

[Factory]

WinBOMType=WinPE

Reseal=No

AutoDetectNetwork = No

[WinPE.Net]

StartNet = No

[WinPE]

Restart=No

SKU = SRV

Lang = ENG

[DiskConfig]

Disk1 = First.Config

[First.Config]

Size1 = 20480

FileSystem1 = NTFS

SetActive1 = Yes

PartitionType1 = Primary

QuickFormat1 = Yes

Size2 = *

PartitionType2 = Extended

Size3 = *

PartitionType3 = Logical

FileSystem3 = NTFS

QuickFormat3 = Yes

 

 

Regards

 

GeoffH