After two weeks of scratching heads and thinking hard i finally got the IBM server up and running once again. It was really a great experience on my part being new to this stuff so i jot down some thoughts that might be of help the next time i fool around with the DNS server 1. Configuring the servers RAID setting was abit tricky and it presented some issues that i learned through the process a. You cannot just remove a partition using fdisk if the drive is in an array. You need to enter the raid setup and manual remove the mirroring before proceeding with the next step. 2. Branded server like IBM provides installation CD that will help you configure and setup the server and the good thing about it is that it provides a way to set up scripts to do unattended installation of some NOS. 3. Installing windows 2003 server is as easy as installing Windows XP . Configuring it though is a little bit tricky. 4. DHCP setup is fine, DNS a little confusi...