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2 things...<br />
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When you installed the drive did you make sure the SATA cable was connected and power cables?<br />
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You then might have to enter BIOS and into the SATA section to see if the drive is active, if not there's a setting to switch it on
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2 things...

When you installed the drive did you make sure the SATA cable was connected and power cables?

You then might have to enter BIOS and into the SATA section to see if the drive is active, if not there's a setting to switch it on

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Big Help, Thanks guys we now have this working
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Big Help, Thanks guys we now have this working

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We received a Dell R620 server from the factory. &nbsp;It was sent without a DVD drive with the normal process to install via network drive. &nbsp;We don't have that ability. &nbsp;So we ordered the appropriate DVD drive from Dell. &nbsp;We are trying to install Oracle Linux OS, but the Server doesn't seem to recognize the DVD drive. &nbsp;Is there something that needs to be done to the server, so that we can make the DVD recognizable to boot from? &nbsp; we've also tried to boot from a USB flash drive, but as mentioned in other posts, that seems like an impossibility.
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We received a Dell R620 server from the factory.  It was sent without a DVD drive with the normal process to install via network drive.  We don't have that ability.  So we ordered the appropriate DVD drive from Dell.  We are trying to install Oracle Linux OS, but the Server doesn't seem to recognize the DVD drive.  Is there something that needs to be done to the server, so that we can make the DVD recognizable to boot from?   we've also tried to boot from a USB flash drive, but as mentioned in other posts, that seems like an impossibility.

Installing OS from DVD Dell R620 server

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