nevthebluebear

Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone has a copy of the Iomega solutions CD for setting up Iomega NAS's. I've got an old Iomega p405m sat in the rack that I want to get sorted just as a bit of extra network space. It powers up and displays a blue flashing light, but I've got no further than that! I presume this is because it needs to be plugged directly into a PC and reconfigured. It is supposed to run win 2k, So i'm hoping I can pxe boot and I can stick something like debian on it. Here's a the manual Thanks Steve

Thanks for the replies. Sadly im unable to find a way of factory resetting. It runs like a pc, so it needs a fresh OS install like a normal server. However i cant seem to get to boot. I have no worries of loosing data as all of the drives are empty anyway, apart from the os of course!

Its built almost identically to a PC, only difference is that it has no USBs, optical drives, and only a keyboard ps2 port. The only other connectors are dual NICs, VGA, console and power! When I got it to boot last week it was running Windows 2000 Server Advanced so I presume it is designed to be managed with a web interface or over remote desktop. The problem is at the moment I don't think its actually booting as its not showing up on my router. Ive been leaving it for 10 - 20 mins to boot as well, still not showing up on the network. So I know its not getting past the bios stage. When I got it to boot last week I pressed the power button really quickly and it went "bleep" and booted. I set the bios to LAN boot and I havent been able to get the machine on since!

ok, Thanks!, there are some old versions OpenMediaVault that look like they support 32 bit, so I'll try them!. Now, just to get the NAS to boot!, Have you got any ideas why its not booting properly?

Ok, Thanks. Have you got any suggestions for NAS OSs to stick on there, Its a fairly old NAS, I think it either has 512mb, or 1gig of RAM. I just need to get it to boot now!, Its a bit of a pain, its booting normally, its just not displaying anything on the monitor, or powering the keyboard. - its almost like its booted but not loading into the BIOS!

I'm pretty sure the NAS supports PXE as it has an option for it in the BIOS, and ive enabled it and set LAN as first boot device. So, I'll have a look at sticking syslinux on my WDS server and try that. However, the problem now is the NAS isn't booting. To get it to boot before I had to press the power button rather rapidly and not hold it town for too long and then "bleep" noise would sound, then bios screens etc and normal booting. Now, I boot it the same as before, all of the drive lights and power lights come on but I'm not getting the "bleep" or anything on the monitor?? So, that problem needs to be solved now before getting a new OS on it Thanks for the reply.

Hi All, Been registered on here a while, learning from posts that other people have written!. - Now it's time for me to throw a problem out there. Ive got an old Iomega P405m NAS in my home rack. Its running Win Server 2000 but who knows what the password is! It hasn't got any USBs, CD drives. only a NIC and a PS2 for a keyboard. So PXE boot is the only option for OS install. I want to stick NAS4free on it. My problem is, how do I deploy something like this through WDS? Sorry if home related network posts aren't allowed on here, I feel i'd get more help here than I would on any other forums Thanks, Steve