Installing Your Operating System Without Using Serverguide; Using The Boot Menu Program; Enabling The Broadcom Netxtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent - IBM x3200 4362 User Manual

2. The ServerGuide program stores information about the server model, service
3. The ServerGuide program prompts you to insert your operating-system CD and

Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide

If you have already configured the server hardware and you are not using the
ServerGuide program to install your operating system, complete the following steps
to download the latest operating-system installation instructions from the IBM Web
site:
Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM Web site. The actual procedure
might vary slightly from what is described in this document.
1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/xseries/index.html/
2. From the Hardware list, select System x3200 and click Go.
3. Click the Install and use tab.
4. Click Product documentation.
5. Select the installation instructions for your operating system.

Using the Boot Menu program

The Boot Menu program is a built in, menu-driven configuration utility program that
you can use to temporarily redefine the first startup device without changing
settings in the Configuration/Setup Utility program.
To use the Boot Menu program, complete the following steps:
1. Restart the server.
2. Press F12.
3. Select the startup device.
The next time the server is started, it returns to the startup sequence that is set in
the Configuration/Setup Utility program.

Enabling the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent

The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent is part of the BIOS. You can
use it to configure the network as a startable device, and you can customize where
the network Startup optional devices occur in the startup sequence. Enable and
disable the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent from the
Configuration/Setup Utility program.
To enable the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet boot agent, complete the
following steps:
1. From the Configuration/Setup Utility main menu, select Startup Option and
2. Select Planar Ethernet PXE/DHCP and use the Right Arrow (→) key to set it to
3. Under the Startup Option→ Startup Sequence Options menu choice, set the
processor, hard disk drive controllers, and network adapters. Then, the program
checks the CD for newer device drivers. This information is stored and then
passed to the operating-system installation program.
restart the server. At this point, the installation program for the operating system
takes control to complete the installation.
press Enter.
Planar Ethernet.
network-planar device as the first startup device.
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