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Originally Posted by jughead
The plan for the Meridian when it arrives:
1. Upgrade to OS4.
2. Try adding more memory.
3. 2 x 200GB drive upgrade.
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The Meridian arrived today. It had a single 8.4GB drive in it and 32MB of FPM RAM. The CPU is an
AMD clone of a Pentium 75MHz. It has no heat sink or fan. There is only one IDE header on the
motherboard so to upgrade to two drives you must jumper them master/slave and use a single, longer
IDE cable (provided inside).
server number: 25xxx
hardware version: 1.1.0
BIOS version: 1.2.180
After verifying it was working, I began patching the server software. I attempted to perform BIOS upgrades using the UpdateBios.exe program. That apparently
ran to completion. I did not write down the BIOS version as it shipped, but it put me at the BIOS
rev shown above. I then tried to run updateSnap.exe and that konked out. My guess is that the
version of this program I was using was for hardware version 2.0.0 or higher.
Question: What was the last bios rev for hardware version 1.1.0 snap servers?
Next, I tried upgrading the SnapOS. First, I installed 3.4.803. No problems. Next I tried
installing 4.0.830. Part of the way through the upgrade the words "Unknown Error" appeared at the bottom left corner of the browser screen. After waiting a few minutes I hit the <OK> button and the version showed 4.0.830. No problems again. At this point I shut the thing down and pulled the hard drive, replacing it with two 40GB Seagate Barracuda V's I had lying around. Upon rebooting the server recognized the drives at full size and began formatting them. Then I installed the 4.0.830 help files. No problems. Then I tried installing the JVM. The system said the .sup file was not supported. I tried a couple of other JVM versions I had and got the same error.
Question: So am I right to conclude that the JVM will not run on Meridian snap servers?
I then tried again to update the BIOS. All that accomplished was to reset the server back to version 2 of SnapOS and I had to start this process all over again.