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I recently got a Dell PowerEdge 1850 server to use as a small Minecraft server for family (3-4 players max; this machine should do just fine). It has 4 GB RAM installed (16 GB max), two Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz CPUs, a CD-ROM drive. It also should have a 73 GB HDD, but it seems it doesn't work.
I tried installing Ubuntu Server via the disc drive, and went into the BIOS to change the boot order and enable OS Installation mode. Whatever I do (disc or USB flash drive), I get either "Boot drive not found (something like that)," or "Media test failure. Check cable," which I know is what you get when there's no working HDD. Does this mean that the ODD doesn't work (and you can't install from a flash drive), or is the HDD at fault? I can't seem to get into the HDD 0 front slot on the left (it seems to have an HDD in it), but there's an empty HDD 1 slot on the right that uses SCSI.
Can anyone tell me my best option? Is the HDD or the ODD at fault? The machine has a "floppy" (not) diskette drive, though I don't have access to a diskette, nor do I think there's one big enough to hold the disc image (600+ MB). It seems I need to get a new SCSI hard drive.
I tried installing Ubuntu Server via the disc drive, and went into the BIOS to change the boot order and enable OS Installation mode. Whatever I do (disc or USB flash drive), I get either "Boot drive not found (something like that)," or "Media test failure. Check cable," which I know is what you get when there's no working HDD. Does this mean that the ODD doesn't work (and you can't install from a flash drive), or is the HDD at fault? I can't seem to get into the HDD 0 front slot on the left (it seems to have an HDD in it), but there's an empty HDD 1 slot on the right that uses SCSI.
Can anyone tell me my best option? Is the HDD or the ODD at fault? The machine has a "floppy" (not) diskette drive, though I don't have access to a diskette, nor do I think there's one big enough to hold the disc image (600+ MB). It seems I need to get a new SCSI hard drive.
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