Dell PowerVault 715N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 32)

Requirements
Null-modem cable included with your NAS appliance
Windows 2000 (Professional or Server Family) client system on the same subnet as the NAS appliance
Resource CD included with your NAS appliance
Reinstallation CD included with your NAS appliance
An existing PXE server on the same network
Procedure
To reinstall the main operating system with Dell default settings on hard disk 0 from an existing PXE server, perform the
following steps:
1. Create a reinstallation diskette image from the Resource CD.
The Reinstallation Diskette utility is located in the Resources section of the Resource CD.
2. Insert the Reinstallation CD in to the CD drive on the PXE server.
3. Right-click the CD drive, click Sharing, and then on the Sharing tab, select Share this folder to make the CD
drive a share.
4. Right-click the go.bat file name on the Reinstallation diskette, and then select Edit to edit the file to the following
variable values for your environment:
a. SHARE, where SHARE is the share resource for the Reinstallation CD in the form
\\server_name\\share_name.
b. USER, where USER is the Windows user who is to access the share resource.
c. PASSWD, where PASSWD is the password for the user who is to access the share resource.
5. Install the customized reinstallation diskette image, which you just created, in your PXE server.
For more information, see your PXE Server documentation.
6. Connect the null-modem cable between the COM port on the NAS appliance and the Windows 2000 client system.
7. Open the Windows 2000 HyperTerminal application, and then configure it with the correct settings:
Set to the correct local COM port
Bits per second to 115,200
Flow control to Xon/Xoff
8. Turn on your NAS appliance.
9. In the HyperTerminal window, press immediately after you see the following message:
Press to enter the Function Select menu.
NOTE: If you use a version of Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system earlier than Service Pack 2, the
function keys do not work. You must press <2>.
10. From the menu, select option 3 (Reinstallation), and then type y to confirm the selection.
The NAS appliance automatically reboots. This stage of the process takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
After this stage, the NAS appliance becomes visible on the network and the PowerVault NAS Manager is accessible.
If the NAS appliance detects new drives, it automatically starts rebuilding the recovery operating system partition
and the data volume.
11. Use the NAS Manager Disk and Volume tabs to monitor the status of the rebuild.