RussellHltn wrote:All of our replacements so far have been the 740. Good machines, but a royal pain to load Desktop 5.5 on. Maybe it's just me but they don't like my external CD.
I finally found the easy way. Yank the hard drive and drop it into one of the FHC GX270. The loadup goes soothly there. Then when it come time to reboot, shut down and move it back to the 740.
I emailed HQ to request a new 5.5 as mine was damaged. They emailed back simply saying...
"You do not need to install the desktop 5.5 on Dell 740 machine. MSR Support Staff -vrr"
Led me to search the lds.org site for more instruction (since so much instruction was given by vrr.) Found instructions on setting up the 740 without Desktop 5.5. If you have an external CD, you can attempt setting up 5.5 as there is instructions for that, although that has problems too as noted above. I believe there is another thread on this topic....