Re: debian on an NAS server

[Tom Brown <brown@esteem.com>]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 10:56, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 08:23 -0800, Tom Brown wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:26, Tom Brown wrote:
> > > During boot I hit
> > > F2 to get to a menu which allows me to select the BIOS setup. It was
> > > there I setup the first boot device to be the network. However, what I
> > > missed in the menu was the option for re-installation. I need to select
> > > that and everything should work correctly. I am going to try that first
> > > thing tomorrow. I'll let the list know how it works out.
> >
> > Well, I tried using the re-installation option from the F2 menu. It
> > didn't help. I still get PXELINUX to download and execute, but when it
> > comes to booting the kernel, it fails. Back to google for me. Or maybe
> > Dell as someone suggested.
>
> Sorry for your problems, but I'd have to have one in front of me to get
> it to work. On thing I have never used (the whole Powervault series for
> example) its tough for me to finger the problems or to get the proper
> working targets.
>
> I know, it sucks, but one you get it done, document it. That way others
> won't have such a hard time doing the same or similar things.
>
> I live in Michigan, so unless you are close to Grand Rapids... I'd have
> to say my odds of figuring out your conundrum is about nil.
I live in Washington State. I almost gathered my comps and flew to Grand 
Rapids out of sheer frustration. However, I learned a little lesson in "never 
use MS tools"... again. I was using hyperterm to interface with the nas 
server and I couldn't read all the output from pxelinux. So, I tried to 
caputre the output, but it was unreadable. I had to leave this project to go 
do some real work for awhile. When I came back to it, my head must have 
cleared a bit because I decided to use teratermpro instead (ok, I probably 
should have been using a linux box and minicom to begin with, but I only had 
the windoze box available to me). I captured the output and was able to read 
the error that my tftp server did not support tsize (whatever that is). I 
just pointed the netboot to a different tftp server and it just worked. Shoot 
me.

Well, I hope that this post saves somebody else a lot of time and effort.

Thanks,
Tom