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H/W question on Servers, asap pls!

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Name: dave
Date: July 25, 2002 at 11:31:32 Pacific
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Hey all, I'm finally getting a job interview after months of looking but part of the job req is h/w knowledge on building servers. I have very little of that hands-on. And it was a while ago, I'm more of a software tech then a hardware one. I would appreciate any and all tips on what basic questions they may ask re: servers and if you can point me to some tutorials or give me some of your own knowledge I'd appreciate it.

This is a Compaq and IBM environment, and the servers are probably a few years old. They'll want me to know how to build a server out of the box. I vaguely remember the last time I had to do it (with someone's help) I had to load RAID drivers or scsi drivers ? And I used something called control m (for what I don't know). Someone also told me to hit a certain F key during the Windows 2000 OS load so I can load certain hardware drivers (F6 I think).

I'm flyin by the seat of my pants on this one, pls help! Once I get to actually loading the OS I'll be ok. Its the prep part before that on which I need help.




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Name: Viper_iii
Date: July 25, 2002 at 13:20:32 Pacific
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Yep F6 when loading special SCSI and even IDE Scsi these days..

F6 will then let you identify and load scsi drivers which inturn will allow the installation to find the devices (HDD) that are attached to it.

also a fun one to know is the use of the winnt.sif on a floppy and $OEM$ slipstream configurations.

These allow administrators to so a full unattended installation Drivers and all...



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Name: dave
Date: July 26, 2002 at 09:16:54 Pacific
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thanks viper!


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