Kosh’s Web Log

This is more for my personal reminder.

I’ve looked this up twice, I need to finish my “kosh kdb” (Kosh Knowledge Data Base) which I was working on, and someday will finish….

To install your service manually

1. Access the directory in which your project’s compiled executable file is located.
2. Run InstallUtil.exe from the command line with your project’s output as a parameter. Enter the following code on the command line:

installutil yourproject.exe

To uninstall your service manually

* Run InstallUtil.exe from the command line with your project’s output as a parameter. Enter the following code on the command line:

installutil /u yourproject.exe

Tip You can launch Server Explorer, and verify that your service has been installed or uninstalled. For more information on launching Server Explorer, see Accessing and Initializing Server Explorer.

Note The Servers node of the Server Explorer is not available in the Standard Edition of Visual Basic and Visual C# .NET. For more information, see Visual Basic Standard Edition Features or Visual C# Standard Edition Features.

I “joined” another guild :).

Since I no longer play WoW, it needs the inverted commas. I’ve set them up with a domain, some email address forwarding and some simple html files that open the guilduniverse.com page when you goto the fqdn.

Anyway, alot of my friends from ingame moved to this guild, so I guess I’m moving technically as well.

Still on the Compaq Servers, I have officially given up running linux on them.

I couldn’t find a way to make it reset when told to restart, and having a machine that you can’t restart remotely is bad.

Under Windows, it restarts fine … doesn’t shut down though.

Meh.

The end of the Compaq Saga

Well it didn’t come with a manual, but after searching I found that you can’t install anything to the MBR, or it fubar’s the system partition.

I tried to “fix” the partition, but the smartstart CD said that it couldn’t access the system partition to restore it.

Isn’t that the point of restoring it ?

So, Another system erase later, we have a Linux booting Compaq Proliant 1850R with a working system partition (and a disabled F1 prompt, yay !)

On a sidenote, It seems not to be able to shutdown, I have read that alot of people have been having this problem, I am “investigating” it now, hopefully I will have an answer in a few hours (I do have work to do as well)

I think that compaq was designed by the devil, for the devil.

I also think that there needs to be somewhere where it is mentioned that you need to put the image “boot144a.dat” onto floppy for this process to work.

I’ve downloaded the specific floppy images from HP’s site, and they all illegal exceptioned.
I ran them up in DOSbox but a few of them required direct IO to the floppy to write the images, well so far “all” of them did, but two of them expanded the images, then showed a “ack, cannont comply” message, at which point I used explorer to copy/paste/rename the expanded file then rawrite to write them to floppy.
(once you accept the “ack, cannot comply” message it deletes the expanded image)

But I have downloaded the “HP SmartStart CD”, and I made a floppy out of the boot144a.dat image, which booted then used the CD (so far) to do the rest.

Eventually I’ll have to get my network map up with the pictures of the machines I’m using.

Eventually.

Back to this “bane of my existence” server (once it’s working it’ll rock, and I could have run up windows on it about 20 times over …)

Well I found the “trick” to setting up this compaq, apprently, it doesn’t believe in CD booting.

stupid ass server

Now I have to diagnose why on startup it prompts “press F1 to continue, press F10 to enter system diagnostic” … and for some reason grub has stopped the server from accessing it’s “bios interface on the disk”

Ugh, Oh well, I’m at work and about to leave, just thought I’d update the one or two people that actually read this.