Installing The Hyper-V Server 2012 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 Operating System Installation Manual

3. Select the language as you need and then click Next.
4. When the "Enter your language and other preferences" window is displayed, configure the language and
other options as you need and then click Next.
5. Click Install now.
6. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then, click Next.
7. Select the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Custom:
(Advanced) is selected in this step.
8. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, depending on the SATA configuration on your
server, do one of the following:
• For RAID (both onboard SATA software RAID and RAID card), do the following:
a. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver to your server and click Load Driver.
b. Click Browse to locate the required driver and then click OK.
c. In the "Select the driver to be installed" window, select Hide drivers that are not compatible
with hardware on this computer, select the driver that you want to install, and then click Next to
install the driver.
• For IDE, go to step 9.
• For AHCI, go to step 9. Be sure to install the AHCI driver after the operating system installation is
completed, see "Installing the driver for the SATA AHCI" on page 103.
9. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, click Drive options (advanced).
10. Choose the hard disk drive to install the operating system, and then click New.
11. Type the amount of space (in MB), and then click Apply.
12. In the Install Windows window, click OK.
13. Ensure that the drive partition is correct, and then click Next. The installation begins.
Note: Your server restarts several times during the installation.
14. When prompted, follow the instructions on the screen to change the password.
Note: The password must be a combination of upper case letters, lower case letters, and numbers.

Installing the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating system

This topic provides instructions on how to install the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating system.
To install the Hyper-V Server 2012 operating system, do the following:
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device. Then, start the server from the optical drive.
2. When the message Press any key to boot from cd or dvd... is displayed, press any key. If the message
Windows Setup [EMS Enabled] is displayed, press Enter. Wait several minutes for the system to load the
files.
3. When the "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012" window is displayed, configure the language and other
options as you need and then click Next.
4. Click Install now.
5. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then, click Next.
6. Select the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Custom:
Install the newer version of Hyper-V Server only (advanced) is selected in this step.
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