Section6. Installing Additional Hp Accessories; Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Nos; Installation Flow; Pre-Installation Instructions - HP ProLiant DL160 G5p Software Configuration Manual

Section6. Installing additional HP accessories

The HP DL160 G5p Server Support CD includes the drivers for accessories compatible to your server.
Refer to the product manual enclosed with the accessory for the detailed installation procedure
and/or to the attached readme.txt file associated with the driver. The readme.txt file can be
found on the appropriate driver diskette.

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux NOS

Installation flow

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux [version]. For the specific procedure for each RHEL NOS version,
1.
refer to the following sections.
Install additional HP accessories.
2.
The HP DL160 G5p Server Support CD includes the drivers for accessories compatible to your
server.
Refer to the product manual enclosed with the accessory for the detailed installation procedure
and/or to the attached readme.txt file associated with the driver. The readme.txt file can
be found on the appropriate driver diskette.

Pre-installation instructions

Complete the NOS pre-installation procedures.
1.
Have the following installation requirements on hand:
2.
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HP DL160 G5p Server Support CD
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD-ROMs
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A Windows PC that has a:
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Two or more clients for testing purposes (optional).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation

The procedures in this section apply to all versions of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 supported by
your server. Refer to Table 18 on page 39 for a list of these NOS versions.
NOTE: If the system has more than 4 GB of memory, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation
requires the pci=nommconf parameter.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 – 5discs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 – 4 discs for the 32-bit version, 5 discs for the 64-bit version
Floppy drive
Optical media drive
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