I am curious about server 2008?

[tlc_13200@hotmail.com]

I have an MSI 7345 mobo and all I want to do is install Server 2008 onto it
with two SATA drives... hopefully in RAID.

Does SATA Drivers need to selected and installed in order to work?


D.Morales

 

[Phillip Windell]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?


"tlc_13200@hotmail.com" <tlc13200hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message newsD45FDB0-DE99-4E69-AF34-DA3DBEC8CEFA@microsoft.com...
>I have an MSI 7345 mobo and all I want to do is install Server 2008 onto it
> with two SATA drives... hopefully in RAID.
>
> Does SATA Drivers need to selected and installed in order to work?

It easy to find out. If they are needed and you don't provide them the
install will fail,...if the OS already has them included and is therefore
"aware" of them, then the install will continue.

If they are needed then they must be provided during the install. In 2003
and older you hit F6 durning the beginning of the Install and then had to
provide the drivers on a floppy (may require a USB External Floppy drive if
the server has none built it). I don't know if 2008 operates the same way
or not.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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[JohnB]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?

You're quickest and most accurate help will come from the mobo manufacturer.
Did you ask them?



"tlc_13200@hotmail.com" <tlc13200hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message newsD45FDB0-DE99-4E69-AF34-DA3DBEC8CEFA@microsoft.com...
>I have an MSI 7345 mobo and all I want to do is install Server 2008 onto it
> with two SATA drives... hopefully in RAID.
>
> Does SATA Drivers need to selected and installed in order to work?
>
>
> D.Morales

 

[tlc_13200@hotmail.com]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?

Hi John B and Phillip W -

I have asked the mobo manufacture, they claimed that they don't have the
drivers that Intel does... although I have downloaded them and will attempt
to place them onto a floppy drive, but I'm not sure how Server 2008 works
compared to Server Small Business 2003 R2 is compared to pressing F6 as we
are aware of it...

I guess I since no one really knows for sure, will surely find out.

If anyone has installed it, perhaps they too can suggest if it requires the
"F6" function to be selected upon installation.

David M.

"JohnB" wrote:

> You're quickest and most accurate help will come from the mobo manufacturer.
> Did you ask them?
>
>
>
> "tlc_13200@hotmail.com" <tlc13200hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message newsD45FDB0-DE99-4E69-AF34-DA3DBEC8CEFA@microsoft.com...
> >I have an MSI 7345 mobo and all I want to do is install Server 2008 onto it
> > with two SATA drives... hopefully in RAID.
> >
> > Does SATA Drivers need to selected and installed in order to work?
> >
> >
> > D.Morales
>
>
>

 

[Andrew Morton]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?

If the OS doesn't have the drivers built in and you have to resort to the
floppy method, you may need to put the drivers in a folder named
$OEM$\TEXTMODE on the floppy.

Andrew

 

[tlc_13200@hotmail.com]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?

Hi Andrew-

I have considered it, no doubt... I'm just curious... does it reqire to load
RAID SATA drivers? Thinking that it's a later version of the software(s) that
they would have hoped to add it to the system.

Dave-

"Andrew Morton" wrote:

> If the OS doesn't have the drivers built in and you have to resort to the
> floppy method, you may need to put the drivers in a folder named
> $OEM$\TEXTMODE on the floppy.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>

 

[Andrew Morton]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?

> "Andrew Morton" wrote:
>> If the OS doesn't have the drivers built in and you have to resort
>> to the floppy method, you may need to put the drivers in a folder
>> named $OEM$\TEXTMODE on the floppy.

tlc_13200@ wrote:
> I have considered it, no doubt... I'm just curious... does it reqire
> to load RAID SATA drivers? Thinking that it's a later version of the
> software(s) that they would have hoped to add it to the system.
>
> Dave-

Did you try Phillip's suggested method of try-it-and-see? My note was really
just a FYI.

Andrew

 

[tlc_13200@hotmail.com]

Re: I am curious about server 2008?

Andrew-

Apparently the system works without ever doing a F6 to install RAID drivers,
however, however it locked up after installation requesting a user name and
password.

Any suggestions how to get past it?

"Andrew Morton" wrote:

> > "Andrew Morton" wrote:
> >> If the OS doesn't have the drivers built in and you have to resort
> >> to the floppy method, you may need to put the drivers in a folder
> >> named $OEM$\TEXTMODE on the floppy.
>
> tlc_13200@ wrote:
> > I have considered it, no doubt... I'm just curious... does it reqire
> > to load RAID SATA drivers? Thinking that it's a later version of the
> > software(s) that they would have hoped to add it to the system.
> >
> > Dave-
>
> Did you try Phillip's suggested method of try-it-and-see? My note was really
> just a FYI.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>