Compaq SmartStart 5.5 ISO from Compaq
Paul
the Smart Start ISO is a free download from Compaq:
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/22678.html
I hope this is of help to others out there ;-)
-Paul
NuTCrAcKeR
"Paul" <vt-...@charter.net> wrote in message
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way old news ...
Jeffrey Alsip
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.
NuTCrAcKeR
"Jeffrey Alsip" <jeffre...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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
Jez T
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" <nutcr...@internationalhacker.org> wrote in message
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Nut Cracker
"Jez T" <Take-out-the-dashes@-plum-pie.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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.
Lockstock
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.
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Lockstock
Nut Cracker
burning method and try it again.
- LC
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Jeffrey Alsip
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" <Lockstoc...@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > NuTCrAcKeR Wrote:
> >> "Jeffrey Alsip" jeffre...@gmail.com wrote in message
> >> news:1142825794.2...@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.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
NuTCrAcKeR
Thank you, Jeffrey
Lockstock
>
> Nut Cracker wrote:[color=green]
> it sounds like you have a lousy CD burn ... try using the
> disk-at-once
> (DAO)
> burning method and try it again.
>
> - LC
>
>
> "Lockstock" Lockstoc...@news.computerbanter.com wrote in message
>
>
LC, cheers for the pointer. I will give that a go this week and let you
know. Have a good weekend.
Cheers, Lockstock
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Lockstock
Lockstock
Hi there. I changed the drive and got a slightly different result this
time. After 3 different burns of the disk using Nero, I got the good
old 'Non system disk....' message from each of the 3 CDs on boot.
The contents of each of the CDs is as below. Do you think it could just
be a dodgy image from the Compaq/Hp site?
Do you, by any chance, know where I could get an alternative image?
Cheers for your time.
Byron.
Directory of E:\
14/02/2000 16:12 44 AUTORUN.INF
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120A.DAT
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120B.DAT
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120C.DAT
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120D.DAT
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120E.DAT
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120F.DAT
24/08/1995 13:11 1,228,800 BOOT120H.DAT
20/05/2002 17:08 1,474,560 BOOT144A.DAT
20/05/2002 17:10 1,474,560 BOOT144B.DAT
20/05/2002 17:12 1,474,560 BOOT144C.DAT
20/05/2002 17:15 1,474,560 BOOT144D.DAT
27/06/2000 12:44 1,474,560 BOOT144E.DAT
27/06/2000 12:44 1,474,560 BOOT144F.DAT
27/06/2000 12:44 1,474,560 BOOT144G.DAT
27/06/2000 12:44 1,474,560 BOOT144H.DAT
13/10/1997 10:57 2,049 BOOTCAT.BIN
06/08/2002 11:25 <DIR> CIMCDDET
06/08/2002 11:28 <DIR> CPQACU
06/08/2002 10:52 <DIR> CPQADU
06/08/2002 10:54 <DIR> CPQDIAGS
06/08/2002 11:25 <DIR> CPQHLP
16/07/1999 03:13 13 CPQNTSSD.1
16/07/1999 03:13 13 CPQNTSSD.2
16/07/1999 03:13 13 CPQNTSSD.3
16/07/1999 03:13 13 CPQNTSSD.4
17/04/2000 11:04 62 CPQSMST
06/08/2002 12:13 <DIR> CPQSUPSW
06/08/2002 10:55 <DIR> CR3500
06/08/2002 10:57 <DIR> DIAGS
06/08/2002 11:09 <DIR> DIFDATA
06/08/2002 11:30 <DIR> DSKBLDR
17/12/1999 12:01 2,048 ETMBR.DAT
06/08/2002 10:57 <DIR> FFIU
06/08/2002 11:29 <DIR> MSENT
27/08/1998 17:43 16,777,216 NWCDIDX.4CD
06/08/2002 11:28 <DIR> REPFLAT
06/08/2002 11:28 <DIR> RGT
06/08/2002 10:57 <DIR> ROMPAQ
06/08/2002 11:26 <DIR> SCOIMAGE
06/08/2002 11:29 <DIR> SOL1
06/08/2002 15:19 566,458 SSCD.PEZ
12/10/2001 13:39 0 SSHWSUP.TX#
02/08/2002 11:52 3,464 SSHWSUP.TXT
06/08/2002 11:26 <DIR> SSNT40
06/08/2002 11:26 <DIR> SSNT50
06/08/2002 11:27 <DIR> SSNW
06/08/2002 11:27 <DIR> SSSUP
06/08/2002 11:31 1,495,235 SSZIP.EXE
02/11/1998 16:25 889 SWORD400.INI
02/11/1998 16:25 890 SWORD720.INI
06/08/2002 11:09 <DIR> SYSCFG
06/08/2002 11:28 <DIR> UTILS
06/06/2002 17:50 25 VERSION
06/08/2002 11:09 <DIR> VER_INFO
06/08/2002 11:31 <DIR> WIN95
06/08/2002 11:31 8,617,183 WIN95.EXE
32 File(s) 47,863,695 bytes
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Lockstock
NuTCrAcKeR
to rip it, but the package I had made a while back from a good CD was Nero
5.5.x.x and i used Disk At Once and its been perfect everytime. In fact, for
some reason, I have made a dozen coasters trying to burn 5.50 for a recent
project I was working on, and had to revert back to that old version of Nero
before it would work. Boy, did that suck ...
- LC
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>
Jeffrey Alsip
free thing). The trick for me is all based around burn speed. I select
the lowest possible number, which with EasyCD and my particular drive
is 8x. 12x also seems to work most of the time. Any speed faster than
this results in a failure.
Heres a thought, NC, what if one of us took a known good disc and used
it to create a more MODERN iso image? Could this image then be expected
to burn at full speed?
I seem to have gotten into the habit of burning EVERY iso at the slower
speeds. Even when I got the new Fedora Core 5, the week before last, I
still burned the discs at the slow speed...just to avoid the
possibility of making new coasters.
Lockstock
Hi there,
Followed your advice and bingo. Writing at x4, the slowest the drive
will allow, and it worked. At last. Cheers for the pointer.
Now lets see how far I can get from this point before I am back. :)
Cheers.
Lockstock
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Lockstock
Lockstock
Hi,
Got it. On the 4th attempt I used the slowest write speed that the
drive will allow and finally I have a boot CD.
Now lets see what else this out beauty throws at me.
Cheers for your help.
Lockstock.
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Lockstock
Jeffrey Alsip
Lockstock wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Followed your advice and bingo. Writing at x4, the slowest the drive
> will allow, and it worked. At last. Cheers for the pointer.
My pleasure. As I said before, I have gotten used to burning ANY iso
file (that I expect to be bootable) at the slowest possible speed.
Now when I take a good 5.50 disk and attempt to COPY it onto a blank
disc, I can do so at full speed with no problem. It's just burning from
the iso that constitutes the big bottle-neck.
Jeff
Lockstock
All built and runs like a dream with 2003. Any ideas how to stop the
bios failing on no keyboard for lights-out booting?
Cheers for your help.
BT
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Lockstock
NuTCrAcKeR
"Lockstock" <Lockstoc...@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in message
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>
Actually, yes.
Run the F10 utilities, and press CTRL+A to get into the advanced menu. Then
run the SCU and edit the settings. There is an option for "headless" or
something to that effect.
However, I would suggest getting a RILOE (or RILOE II) board for your
server, as it taps into the KVM ports on the server, and gives you complete
remote control and administration over the system. Last one i bought on ebay
was $25 about 3 weeks ago.
- LC
Jeffrey Alsip
> However, I would suggest getting a RILOE (or RILOE II) board for your
> server, as it taps into the KVM ports on the server, and gives you complete
> remote control and administration over the system. Last one i bought on ebay
> was $25 about 3 weeks ago.
With all of the RILOE talk, lately, I am feeling the urge to play with
one myself. Ebay does have several listed...can you tell me the part
number I need for a ProLiant 1600 or 3000?
Jeff
Nut Cracker
You need a RILOE board, NOT RILOE II :
RILOE compatability Matrix:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/remote-lightsout/server-slot-matrix.html
RILOE II compatablility Matrix:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/riloe2/server-slot-matrix.html
Locate your server on the list, and see what slot you need to install the
board into. Also, note any cabling notes.
- LC
infor....@gmail.com
I got my self Compaq ml370 gen 2 am trying to re intall it from scratch I have tried to get mart start cd both 32 and 6 bit.. message am getting is
infor....@gmail.com
I got my self comp ml370 sec gen
am trying to kind of format and fresh install . tried to download smart start cd both 32 and 64 bit. am getting error message This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU
maybe am using wrong disks . please help where can I get proper smart start cd and which operating system is compatible with this system
Peter Jeczo
Need a help! I cant download this files, smartstart 5.5. i can't find the internet, nowhere.
I need this utility. Please help!
Thanks! :)
Peter Jeczo
I can't find the HP smartstart 5.5 image, nowhere the internet. Please help me!
Thanks guys!