Installing The Linux Operating System; System Requirements - Sun Microsystems Sun Ultra 27 Operating System Installation Manual

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C H A P T E R

Installing the Linux Operating System

This chapter provides information about installing the Linux OS on your workstation.
The following Linux operating systems (or later versions) are supported for this workstation:
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You can order Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop for the workstation
from the following Sun web site:
http://www.sun.com/software/linux/index.html
This chapter includes the following sections:
"System Requirements" on page 23
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"Preparing for Linux Installation" on page 24
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"Installing the Linux OS" on page 26
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"Installing Drivers" on page 26
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System Requirements

Requirements for Linux vary. Refer to the documentation for the supported version you intend
to install.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Release 5.3, 32–bit and 64–bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP2, 64-bit only
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, refer to:
enterprise/#RHEL5
For SUSE Linux Enterprise, refer to:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/
http://www.novell.com/documentation/sled10/
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