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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
Perhaps this is old news to you server gurus, but I (just) found out that
the Smart Start ISO is a free download from Compaq: http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/22678.html I hope this is of help to others out there ;-) -Paul |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
"Paul" wrote in message 1... Perhaps this is old news to you server gurus, but I (just) found out that the Smart Start ISO is a free download from Compaq: http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/22678.html I hope this is of help to others out there ;-) -Paul way old news ... |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have
certainly changed. I can remember the days when I had my first PII 3000, and I downloaded about 8 compact disk's worth of data rather than pay NC for his disk...and I advised everybody to do the same. I was young and wrong, and I publically admit it. |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
"Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have certainly changed. I can remember the days when I had my first PII 3000, and I downloaded about 8 compact disk's worth of data rather than pay NC for his disk...and I advised everybody to do the same. I was young and wrong, and I publically admit it. It was a public service, and the ISO was not publicly available. Bandwith costs money my friend, and I never "made" any money on it. It just offset the cost of the additonal bandwidth consumption. the day that they posted the link to the ISO on thier site, I took down the autoresponder and started to direct people to the HP site for the DL. Greed is not a word that anyone i know uses when describing me. : ) - LC |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
Back in the good old days (about SmartStart 4.70 ot 4.80 - 4 years ago?), I
had some recovered SmartStart CDs that I stuck on Ebay. IIRC, I used to get about $5-$10 for them (inc Management CD and postage anywhere in the world), though once, someone insisted on paying £40 (Thats about $70!) The ISO was not publicly available until SmartStart became Linux-based. Before that, Compaq had to pay for a Windows license with each CD, and that's why you could not download the ISO image. "NuTCrAcKeR" wrote in message ... "Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have certainly changed. I can remember the days when I had my first PII 3000, and I downloaded about 8 compact disk's worth of data rather than pay NC for his disk...and I advised everybody to do the same. I was young and wrong, and I publically admit it. It was a public service, and the ISO was not publicly available. Bandwith costs money my friend, and I never "made" any money on it. It just offset the cost of the additonal bandwidth consumption. the day that they posted the link to the ISO on thier site, I took down the autoresponder and started to direct people to the HP site for the DL. Greed is not a word that anyone i know uses when describing me. : ) - LC |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
"Jez T" wrote in message ... Back in the good old days (about SmartStart 4.70 ot 4.80 - 4 years ago?), I had some recovered SmartStart CDs that I stuck on Ebay. IIRC, I used to get about $5-$10 for them (inc Management CD and postage anywhere in the world), though once, someone insisted on paying £40 (Thats about $70!) The ISO was not publicly available until SmartStart became Linux-based. Before that, Compaq had to pay for a Windows license with each CD, and that's why you could not download the ISO image. yah, that sounds about right. In todays terms, the old disks used something that would be analogus to a PE environment. It was really just a windows shell that provided the graphic object interface that SS used. |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
NuTCrAcKeR Wrote: "Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have certainly changed. I can remember the days when I had my first PII 3000, and I downloaded about 8 compact disk's worth of data rather than pay NC for his disk...and I advised everybody to do the same. I was young and wrong, and I publically admit it. It was a public service, and the ISO was not publicly available. Bandwith costs money my friend, and I never "made" any money on it. It just offset the cost of the additonal bandwidth consumption. the day that they posted the link to the ISO on thier site, I took down the autoresponder and started to direct people to the HP site for the DL. Greed is not a word that anyone i know uses when describing me. : ) - LC Hi there, Reading this lot it looks like I may have found my saviour then. We have (for our sins) just rolled out a load of new Dell servers and as a result, there is an old Proliant ML350 that I will be taking home for 'training' purposes. I have managed to replace the 3 x 9gb scsi drives with 3 x 73gb. Now obviously, the old sys partition and utils went with the old array. I am having a nightmare trying to reconfigure the raid card. I have downloaded and created the SS 5.5 CD but the system just hangs on 'Trying to boot to CD'. Should I be preparing the CD as bootable or does the iso take care of the boot files? I have tried the 'erase' utility on fdd but that comes back and tells me that the 'system has been intentionally locked please run the SmartStart CD'. I have tried and tried and tried to find an fdd version of the raid config util but no luck. Is this box recoverable with 3 new disks in? Any help would be greatly appreciated so thanks in advance. Cheers, Lockstock. -- Lockstock |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
it sounds like you have a lousy CD burn ... try using the disk-at-once (DAO)
burning method and try it again. - LC "Lockstock" wrote in message ... NuTCrAcKeR Wrote: "Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have certainly changed. I can remember the days when I had my first PII 3000, and I downloaded about 8 compact disk's worth of data rather than pay NC for his disk...and I advised everybody to do the same. I was young and wrong, and I publically admit it. It was a public service, and the ISO was not publicly available. Bandwith costs money my friend, and I never "made" any money on it. It just offset the cost of the additonal bandwidth consumption. the day that they posted the link to the ISO on thier site, I took down the autoresponder and started to direct people to the HP site for the DL. Greed is not a word that anyone i know uses when describing me. : ) - LC Hi there, Reading this lot it looks like I may have found my saviour then. We have (for our sins) just rolled out a load of new Dell servers and as a result, there is an old Proliant ML350 that I will be taking home for 'training' purposes. I have managed to replace the 3 x 9gb scsi drives with 3 x 73gb. Now obviously, the old sys partition and utils went with the old array. I am having a nightmare trying to reconfigure the raid card. I have downloaded and created the SS 5.5 CD but the system just hangs on 'Trying to boot to CD'. Should I be preparing the CD as bootable or does the iso take care of the boot files? I have tried the 'erase' utility on fdd but that comes back and tells me that the 'system has been intentionally locked please run the SmartStart CD'. I have tried and tried and tried to find an fdd version of the raid config util but no luck. Is this box recoverable with 3 new disks in? Any help would be greatly appreciated so thanks in advance. Cheers, Lockstock. -- Lockstock |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
Nut Cracker wrote: it sounds like you have a lousy CD burn ... try using the disk-at-once (DAO) burning method and try it again. - LC "Lockstock" wrote in message ... NuTCrAcKeR Wrote: "Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have Please ignore my previous post in this thread. I was "incoherent" at the time. NC is the greatest resource that we have. Please CD-burn again, but try doing it at a speed of around 12X rather than full speed. Jeffrey Alsip |
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Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
"Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... Nut Cracker wrote: it sounds like you have a lousy CD burn ... try using the disk-at-once (DAO) burning method and try it again. - LC "Lockstock" wrote in message ... NuTCrAcKeR Wrote: "Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... WAY old. We used to have to PAY the Nutcracker for this ISO. Times have Please ignore my previous post in this thread. I was "incoherent" at the time. NC is the greatest resource that we have. Please CD-burn again, but try doing it at a speed of around 12X rather than full speed. Jeffrey Alsip Thank you, Jeffrey |
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