Prerequisites - New H3C Technologies iFIST User Manual

For a PMC controller, the controller mode must be RAID (Hide-RAW).
For an LSI controller, the controller mode must be RAID and the JBOD attribute must be
OFF.
Change the storage controller mode as needed.
For information about how to determine the controller type and change the controller mode, see
H3C Servers Storage Controller User Guide .
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Only one bootable media is mounted to the server. If more than one are mounted, the server
might fail to identify the correct boot media, and operating system installation will fail as a result.
Do not remove the image source during operating system installation.
To install an operating system on a server in UEFI boot mode, make sure only the system drive
(target logical drive) contains a UEFI partition. Operating system installation will fail if a UEFI
partition exists on a non-system drive.
The OS installation wizard does not support OS installation or RAID configuration on the onboard
RAID controller.

Prerequisites

Before using the OS installation wizard, complete the following tasks:
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Mount the storage media that contains the OS image to the server. Supported storage media
include CD (physical CD or HDM virtual media) and USB flash drive.
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If driver installation is required, mount to the server the storage media that contains a REPO
image file in a format matching the ISO image format. iFIST cannot recognize compressed
driver installation packages.
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If iFIST is accessed through the HDM remote console, you must mount both the OS image file
and REPO image file to the HDM remote console.
Figure 4-1
REPO image file stored on a virtual CD.
shows an example of mounting to the KVM remote console the OS image file and
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