21 Dec
2022
21 Dec
'22
1:33 p.m.
So Chris, your subject should be OT: Win2K+3 on a Dell Poweredge 2600
because this is not on topic for this list. After all of our comments
about topic/off topic hopefully you understand what we're talking about.
If it's newer than 1990 then your post could very well be off topic (OT)
unless there is something novel about the item that makes it unique and
worth pushing into newer time periods.
To answer your question - read up about this Dell 2600's and the RAID array
types available. There will have been a driver/setup CD that came with the
system that allows the set up of the drives and RAID prior to installation
of the operating system. RAID comes first, then the OS is installed on top
of it as if the multiple drives were one logical hard drive. The original
OS would have been something older than Win 2003. It is a good thing to
have RAID if it works for redundancy purposes. You can't remove the RAID
configuration stick the OS on one drive without the setup disk. That's not
the mentality you're looking for here. I have one of these in my
basement. It came with RedHat 6.2 I believe.
Bill
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:12 AM Chris via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
This beast was given to me by a neighbor. Dual socket
604. Windows 2003 in
some RAID configuration. I understand (or used to understand) RAID levels
somewhat. But iinm he tells me the OS is "split" over 6 scsi drives. Not
getting this, but I don't need all the redundancy/striping. I want it all
on 1 drive. What to use to image what comstitutes 1 volume I guess. Norton
Ghost? I have an extra scsi drive, I can always restore the image to the 1
drive (yes?), before or without alterimg the currently embedded stack.
This thing is heavy. I secured a copy of the Corel Linux Starter Kit and
want to load it into the Poweredge. For chips and pringles. I have other
pre uefi boxes around but this is lying dormant. And 6 drives for my
purposes is stupid. And heavy.