From: "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to set it up to run Linux software RAID-1 with Ext4 on a pair of SATA disks for booting and ZFS RAID-Z2 on the 5*SAS disks for data storage. [...] The boot disks were wiped, the DVD drive is broken [...]
Can't you just put in a new optical drive, long enough to do an install?
One of the down-sides of such name-brand equipment is that their parts are all different from other systems. When you only have one of a particular type of system the options for getting spare parts aren't good.
But to open the case and connect a DVD drive for installing shouldn't be a problem? The last time I had to use a "branded" CD drive was in the 90ies when Sun SPARC machines failed to boot from "no Sun" CD drives. For that reason I kept one external Sun CD drive which was probably 20 times slower than everything else available at the time. At least the install wasn't putting time pressure on me, I could go for lunch after a few clicks to kickstart the process;-) Regards Peter