Reimaging The System From A Usb Flash Drive; Installation Options; Retaining The Raid Partition While Installing The Os - Nvidia DGX A100 User Manual

6. Select Write in ISO Image mode and click OK.
9.3. Reimaging the System from a USB
Flash Drive
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Context for the current task.
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9.4.

Installation Options

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9.4.1. Retaining the RAID Partition While Installing
the OS
The reimaging process creates a fresh installation of the DGX OS. During the OS installation or
reimage process, you are presented with a boot menu when booting the installer image.
The default selection is Install DGX Software. The installation process then repartitions all the
SSDs, including the OS SSD as well as the RAID SSDs, and the RAID array is mounted as
. This overwrites any data or file systems that might exist on the OS disk as well as the
raid
RAID disks.
Since the RAID array on the DGX A100 system is intended to be used as a cache and not for
long- term data storage, this should not be disruptive. However, if you are an advanced user
and have set up the disks for a non-cache purpose and want to keep the data on those drives,
then select the Install DGX Server without formatting RAID option at the boot menu during the
boot installation. This option retains data on the RAID disks and performs the following:
NVIDIA DGX A100
Updating and Restoring the Software
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