Adoran
August 20th, 2008, 02:26 PM
Hello forum,
I have just bought a PowerEdge 6400 server (http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/product_support/product_support_central?~ck=ln&c=us&cs=555&l=en&lnki=0&s=biz&SystemID=PWE_PNT_P3T_6400) for an immaculate $500 and I am looking to get this mother running Ubuntu 8.04
I checked the manual before hand and saw that the server runs Red Hat - lovely, I thought surely this means it will run Ubuntu. Sadly not, but hopefully this will be a learning experience.
The problem arises when the setup checks the CD's integrity; It throws out a chksum error. It has a problem, it would appear, on a random package of the CD as it is never the same package twice. I have run the "Check CD for Defect" option and it throws up the same error.
Good. I thought if the CD is a coaster then I can re-download a copy of ubuntu, burn another CD and try that. No luck - with two different brands of CDs and chksum verified copy of Ubuntu.
Why does this happen? The CD is good so why does a chksum error come up? Is there any way to suppress this and brute force the OS onto the server?
I'll talk to DELL but in the meantime if anyone has any insight into this it would be great to know.
I have just bought a PowerEdge 6400 server (http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/product_support/product_support_central?~ck=ln&c=us&cs=555&l=en&lnki=0&s=biz&SystemID=PWE_PNT_P3T_6400) for an immaculate $500 and I am looking to get this mother running Ubuntu 8.04
I checked the manual before hand and saw that the server runs Red Hat - lovely, I thought surely this means it will run Ubuntu. Sadly not, but hopefully this will be a learning experience.
The problem arises when the setup checks the CD's integrity; It throws out a chksum error. It has a problem, it would appear, on a random package of the CD as it is never the same package twice. I have run the "Check CD for Defect" option and it throws up the same error.
Good. I thought if the CD is a coaster then I can re-download a copy of ubuntu, burn another CD and try that. No luck - with two different brands of CDs and chksum verified copy of Ubuntu.
Why does this happen? The CD is good so why does a chksum error come up? Is there any way to suppress this and brute force the OS onto the server?
I'll talk to DELL but in the meantime if anyone has any insight into this it would be great to know.