Got myself a Dell PE210 to install ROS on, but I can’t even get the OS installed. I want to install RouterOS 5.0rc7 on a USB flashdrive.
I’ve tried NetInstall 3.28, 4.10 and 5.0rc7 on Windows XP SP3, Vista 32bit, and 7 64bit against an 8GB Patriot flash drive and a 1GB Kingston flash drive. On all combinations the flash drive is formatted as FAT32 and perfectly accessible in Windows. I start NetInstall, select the drive, browse for the ROS packages, select the ones I want, and click “Install”. NetInstall shows that it is formatting the drive, and then changes the status to “Failed” and an error message of “Cannot copy system files”. I’ve tried running as administrator in the Vista and 7 attempts. The formatting seems to go OK as the drive is inaccessible in Windows after the failed installation, I’m assuming ext2 or ext3 are put on as a filesystem.
I can boot the server from a CD burned with an ROS ISO, but that CD then boots and complains that there are no hard drives found, even though the built in SATA drive or the flash drive have been connected and are showing as boot options in the boot manager.
Any ideas on how to get RouterOS installed on that flash drive? NetInstall should work, but always dies with that error message.
Managed to get NetInstall to write the image to a CF card. Booting that CF card just gets me the hard drive installer, which then dies being unable to find any hard drive, including the one the CD installer finds just fine.
I then tried booting the CD in a desktop machine and install to a CF card with all hard drives removed, that didn’t work either.
Finally I managed to use the CD in a desktop machine to install to the SATA drive removed from the server, that hard drive put back into the server then boots fine. So I guess I can start testing, but if anyone has any insight on how to get ROS 5.0rc7 installed on a CF card I can boot in a Dell PE 210 I’d appreciate any comments. I’d rather use CF cards or USB flash drives than hard drives.
I’m having the same issue with a Dell T110 server. I’ve the same install methods as OP except I currently don’t have an external hard drive bay for 3.5 hard drives so I am currently stuck with no way to install RouterOS. Neither USB installed was with netinstall, or using ISO CD-ROM work. In both cases “Fatal Error, Hard Drive not found” is what I get regardless of SATA Bios settings.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get this working on a Dell system other than the work around of installing the the OS on a external hard drive bay?(Not an option for me ATM) CentOS installed without issue on a second server(T110) I have. Frankly I don’t care if it is RouterOS installed on this server. I’m more interested in a solution to my small hotspot company.
Radius Manager 3 reps tell me Mikrotik is tops when it comes to working with their software. Unfortunately it wont go on a top three manufactures computer. Seems to me Mikrotik would at least shoot for having it install on 80% of all world wide servers sold. If anyone has a suggestion on another solution that works with modern servers I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I got nothing - never found a workaround. Once it’s installed it works fine, but to get it installed I have to remove the hard drives and install the OS in a different chassis.
fewi: can you please let me know which dekstop supports to install RouterOS in SATA HDD. I have tried to install MikortikOS in USB flash drive using unetbootin but it is not booting. I have tried with netinsaller but it shows FATAL Error: no network card found