Hello
We have an old server running in our company by Simadyn D,now the server is too old and we want to change it to a new machine. But we are fail to install flexos in large hard disk when its capability exceeds 8 Gbytes (the old hard disk is 2Gbytes). We found that the machine was halted when it was loading flexos. Any ideas to solve this problem please?

besides,we want to change a new network card in PCI slot instead the old card in ISA slot(model is 3C509B-C), how to configure it?

 

With respect to the hard drive, you probably need to partition it. Partitioning a drive divides it up into what appears to be smaller individual "drives" on one disk. Just make the first partition 8 GB or less and install Flex-OS on that. To do this, you need a partition editor.

The best partition editor that I've seen is GParted. You can download it (for free) from: "http://gparted.sourceforge.net/". Download the ISO, burn it to a CD, and use it to boot the computer. Then, use the partition editor to divide up the disk into smaller partitions.

If you are using MS Windows to download and burn the disk you might have to find yourself a proper CD burning program first, as for some reason the standard MS Windows disk burning program doesn't seem to be able to handle ISO files properly.

I can't help you with the network card. Does FlexOS know how to handle PCI bus? If not, you might need to find a computer with ISA slots. You can still get new ISA motherboards if you know where to look.

 

Sometimes you can cheat the BIOS into using the drive parameters for a smaller drive. Heads and sectors the same and a smaller number of tracks. Disable auto sensing to try this and heaven help you if someone turns it on again. I'm not familiar with FlexOS, but it might be as simple as making a small primary partition and telling the installer to put it there. You would want the partition type to be compatible.

Regards,
cww