25 Jun
                
                    2013
                
            
            
                25 Jun
                
                '13
                
            
            
            
        
    
                12:57 a.m.
            
        Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
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?