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

Installing the Operating System

Your Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation has the Solaris 10 Operating System preinstalled.
You can also choose to install one of the other supported operating systems.
Note – For best results, make sure to run the latest operating system (OS) updates.
Some OS installations might not run properly if the latest updates are not installed.
The following additional operating systems are supported for the Sun Ultra 40 M2
Workstation:
Pre-installed Solaris 10, 6/06
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RHEL 4 32-bit/64-bit Update 4
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RHEL 3 32-bit/64-bit Update 8
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SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLED10) 64-bit
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Windows XP 32-bit SP2
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Windows XP 64-bit SP1
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Instructions for installing these operating systems are packaged in the media sets
that are provided with the operating system software.
If you are installing Windows XP software and you plan to set up a RAID
configuration on your workstation, you will need to install the RAID drivers in
conjunction with installing Windows XP. See
System Drivers" on page 12
Note – The diagnostic partition is preinstalled on the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation.
You can obtain information about how to reinstall the diagnostic partition from the
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Tools and Drivers CD.
8 Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide • November 2006
"Installing Windows XP Operating
and "Enabling SATA RAID Support" on page 4.