Installing The Operating System - Sun Microsystems Ultra 40 M2 Installation Manual

Installing the Operating System

The section describes how to install the Linux, Windows, or Solaris operating
system.
To install the operating system:
1. Power on the workstation.
2. Do one of the following:
If you are installing a Linux OS or reinstalling the Solaris 10 Operating System,
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and the BIOS installed O/S option has not been changed from the default,
proceed to Step 3.
If you are installing Windows XP, make the following change to the BIOS settings:
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a. Select the Advanced tab and change the Installed O/S option to Win2K/XP.
b. Press the F10 key to save your changes and exit the BIO Setup Utility.
3. Install the operating system, following the instructions that come with the
software.
Note – If you need to install RAID drivers for Windows XP, you will need to create
a new Windows CD before installing the Windows XP OS. See the Sun Ultra 40 M2
Operating System Installation Guide, 819-7577 for further information.
4. After installing the operating system, install the appropriate drivers from the Sun
Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD, using one of the following
procedures.
Installing the Drivers for a Linux OS
To install the drivers from the Tools and Drivers CD for supported Red Hat and
SUSE operating systems:
1. If you have installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux, run the up2date utility.
2. If the CD does not automount, manually mount the CD.
3. Change to the following directory:
Where mountpoint is the directory the CD is mounted to, and operating_system is the
operating system installed (red_hat or suse).
4. Run
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./install.sh.
/mountpoint/drivers/linux/operating_system