Installing The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-On Operating System; Installing The Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard Operating System; Installing The Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Operating System With Service Pack 1; Installing The Hyper-V Server 2012 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Operating System Installation Manual

Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium
Add-on operating system
To install the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on operating system, see
"Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on operating system" on
page 8 .
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard
operating system
To install the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard operating system, see "Installing the
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 Standard operating system" on page 13.
Installing the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 operating system with Service
Pack 1
To install the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 operating system, see "Installing the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with SP1
operating system" on page 21.

Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating system

To install the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating system, see "Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating
system" on page 22.

Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 operating system

To install the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 operating system, see "Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
operating system" on page 22.
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system with
Service Pack 3
This topic provides instructions on how to install the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system with
Service Pack 3 (x32 or x64).
Note: During the installation, ensure that the boot partition (/boot) is within the first 1 TB of the hard disk drive.
Before you start the operating system installation, do the following:
1. Download the driver for RAID from the Lenovo Web site to your server. The most up-to-date
device drivers for various server models are always available on the Lenovo Web site at
http://www.lenovo.com/drivers. Unzip the driver file if necessary. The extension of the driver file is
.img usually.
2. Save the driver file to the root directory, and then type the following commands:
cd/root
mkdir img
mount -oloop *.img
3. A folder named as 01 or 02 is created. Copy the folder to the root directory of a USB storage device.
To install the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system with Service Pack 3 (x32 or x64), do
the following:
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