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methods to install windows on Poweredge 2500

Oct 12, 2009 2:46PM PDT

The other day, my neighbor was cleaning out his basement, and gave me his old Poweredge 2500 server. He said I could have it, as long as I format the harddrives. Me, being the computer geek I am took the offer. I wanted to wipe everything out anyways. It has the following:
1 gb ram
1x 1000Mhz pentium 3 processor
3x 18gb seagate cheetah scsi drives
3x 300w power supplies
floppy drive
tape drive
RAID 10 setup

Since this is 2009, I don't have any floppy drives or tape disks at all. I also don't have a SCSI cd drive.(I have IDE and sata cd drives galore, but as far as I could see, nothing but scsi)

So my question is, how should I go about installing XP, or 2003 server? I have ISOs for both of them(legally, of course), but I don't know how to get them onto the server. I don't think it is USB bootable, is it?

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Start at Dell Docs.
Oct 13, 2009 8:27AM PDT
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hmm...
Oct 13, 2009 9:02AM PDT

Thanks for the reply. For the first link, I am a bit confused. An RJ45 to usb adapter? This does have an rj45 port on it. would I be able to install windows via LAN? sorry, I am computer literate, but this my first experience with a server, or anything other than samba sharing. I looked through everything in my BIOS setup, but I could not find any option to include USB in the boot order. I even popped in a flash drive that I have a bootable distro of slackware on, but as far as I could tell, the server isn't recognizing it.

As for the 2nd link, I am currently looking into that now.
Thanks!

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I messed up.
Oct 13, 2009 9:16AM PDT