Running servers under bare metal
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 4, 2007 - 9:37pm.
Just downloaded and setup bare metal. Tried installing Windows 2003 server from my SBS 2003 cd, but it kept stalling half way thru configuring devices and so I gave up. I downloaded Enterprise 2003 from MS website http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/trial/installinstruct.mspx and using the key they sent me, managed to install this without the same problem. Odd.
First question is that bare metal starts each time with network not started so I have to configure it each time. Is there a way for this to happen automatically?
Second question is, how to do I configure NAT on the bare metal host so that I can get my 2003 instance acting as a server?
Hi Costa It's a P4 with
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 8, 2007 - 3:24pm.
Hi Costa
It's a P4 with 512Mb ram and a realtek chipset NIC. The ip address is obtained by DHCP. Each time I start up bare metal I have to click on the network settings, select the wired network and then it's fine.
Bridged networking .. do I have to re-create the LivePC or can I just change NAT to bridged?
PS: It would be easier if we could use a default image instead of having to find an image for the LivePC ( it won't allow you to proceed with creation until you put the URL there )
How did you get past the
Submitted by Robert Smith on August 9, 2007 - 8:01am.
How did you get past the spot were it askes for the logo?
If you could help me out
Submitted by Constantine Sap... on August 9, 2007 - 8:39am.
If you could help me out with more information about the network card. Could you hit F5 and type lspci -n and give me the 4 hex digits following 10EC: in any line containing 10EC? Also, before clicking "Wired" to fix your network setup, could you run mii-tool and ifconfig?
You should change NAT to bridged. You can do this under Configure... and then click Edit and change connection type.
I hear you on the default logo; that's definitely an oversight on our part. In the interim, you can put /usr/share/skyblue/webui/moka5icon.png
Robert, I clicked on
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 9, 2007 - 12:56pm.
Robert,
I clicked on "documentation", browsed to one of the livePCs, and then copied the url of one of the existing LivePC images which I then pasted ...
10ec:8029 mii-tool - no MII
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 9, 2007 - 1:17pm.
10ec:8029
mii-tool - no MII interfaces found
Any suggestions on how to upload the text output from ifconfig to the forum? The documentation browser seems to be locked down so that I can't navigate to a website that will allow me to upload a local text file.
Realtek 8029 not well supported
Submitted by Constantine Sap... on August 10, 2007 - 5:45pm.
Graham,
Realtek 8029 isn't well supported by our network configuration program due to its inability to inform the computer of link up/down. If using another card is an option, that would be ideal.
If not, less us know and we'll look further into a workaround.
-Costa
Not a problem ... just good
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 10, 2007 - 9:09pm.
Not a problem ... just good to know it's not the default behaviour with a supported NIC.
I reinstalled SBS 2003 using
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 15, 2007 - 6:28pm.
I reinstalled SBS 2003 using new media and that went fine. Can't see any scratches on my other cd, but guess it must be defective.
Set a static IP
Submitted by Graham Chiu on August 23, 2007 - 12:41pm.
Is there a way to set the IP address of the NIC?
I did another bare metal install to recycle a PIII 1Ghz box with onboard Intel chipset NIC, and it just spins trying to acquire a network address.
Re: Set a static IP
Submitted by Constantine Sap... on August 23, 2007 - 5:07pm.
Yes, you can set a static IP. Let us know if
http://www.moka5.com/docs/ug_managing.html#staticip
works for you.
You can get a console by hitting F5. We bundle vi as an editor.
-Costa
Re: Running servers under bare metal
Graham,
Thank your for using moka5 and I'm sorry to hear you're having problems.
We will look into reproducing the crashes on install Windows Server 2003 and get back to you. Thank you for the pointers to the media.
Apropos the network not working, what sort of computer and network adapter are you using? How do you configure the network each time? Does your subnet use DHCP?
To make your 2003 instance act a server, we recommend you configure "bridged networking" when creating the LivePC. This will attach the LivePC directly to your host's primary network interface.
Best,
-Costa