This is annoying me.
The board had IPMI firmware v1.05 and the remote console was working just fine and I was really really impressed (easily pleased i guess).
But, that firmware being <v1.3 meant it couldn't do the virtual media thing that I think is also really handy/ really want too.
So I...
apologies for the ramble/ n00b issues.
okies in order it went like this:
i put the freeBSDie on this box (precision 210) it went on fine - it gave me the h0rn - i said yay me.
i thought i'd put it on the other box as thats the one i intend to keep it on (precision 420)
it spat it out...
okies -
i have 3 boxen atm, i will probably be adding eithe 2 or 4 more soon.
i want to save some physical space and group them all together, so i'm obviously thingking about racks.
but, i'd like to get my head around clustering/ diskless booting, so i'm giong to want to want to stick...