Installing Server 2003 on Server

How would I go along with this if I have no floppy drive?? Would a thumb drive work?

Can you get a USB Floppy drive? Some Servers (HP for example) provide a setup disk that eliminate this step.

I will take a look; unfortunately this is a custom built server.

If I remember correctly, a cd with w2k3 SP2 should be able to load drivers from usb.

Well I have a floppy drive and disk now, I contacted the people I got the server from and waiting to hear back on what motherboard the machine has.

k, got the motherboard number,
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Server+Products&ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+Server+Boards&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+Server+Board+S5000PSL

Which driver is the one im looking for?

ugh, gotta love intel; page cannot be displayed.. it was just up!

ok, I think im getting closer.. I was able to install the driver and the harddrives showed up during the reinstall, but now when the computer reboots it doesnt pick up where it left off and just automaticly boots the cd and starts the process over..

any idea?

Thanks,

remove the CD from the drive and let it boot from the HDD.
Or change the Boot order in the BIOS

try create a Unattended Setup
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

I tried changing the boot order but I had no such luck.

If it still booting from the CD after having changed the boot order, then the server is not seeing the HDD's.
What did the Vendor have to say about this behavior?

nothing really about the behavior the server was working when I got it, but Im redoing it because it had a lot of crap on it that was just running a lot of processes.

I have 4 boot options in bios to choose from.
the DVD
the Floppy
IBA GE Slot
EFI Shell

I dont really see the harddrives listed in Bios. :(

I am striking out; I get into the raid config and see the harddrives but they are saying none are physical drives.

=(

Thanks Buddy