Installing The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Operating System; Installing The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 Operating System Installation Manual

• Manually create a swap partition
To create a swap partition, do the following:
a. Click Create. The Create Storage window is displayed.
b. Select Standard Partition and then click Create.
c. In the Add Partition window, select swap from the File System Type drop-down list box.
d. In the Allowable Drives window, select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the
operating system.
e. Type the amount of space (in MB) in the New Partitions Size window and then click OK.
Go back to the Partitioner window, the created root partition, boot partition, and swap partition are
displayed. Click Next. The drive partition is finished.
13. In the Format Warnings window, click Format to format the hard disk drive.
14. In the "Writing storage configuration to disk" window, click Write changes to disk.
15. In the "Boot loader operating system list" window, click Next.
16. The default installation is a basic server installation. You can customize your server by selecting a
different set of software from the software list or adding additional repositories that you want to use for
the software installation. Select Customize now. Then, click Next. The installation process begins.
Note: When a warning window is displayed, select the option of your choice and then continue with the
installation.
17. After the installation is completed, click Reboot to restart your server.

Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 operating system

To install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 operating system, see "Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.10 operating system" on page 44.

Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system

This topic provides instructions on installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) operating system.
To install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) operating system, do the following:
1. Download the drivers from the Lenovo Web site at http://www.lenovo.com/drivers. Unzip the drivers if
necessary. Then, copy the drivers to a USB storage device or burn the drivers to a disc.
Note: If your server comes with an onboard RAID card, download the README files for the drivers from
the Lenovo Web site and follow the instructions to install the drivers.
2. 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.
3. Select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and press Enter.
4. If the operating system is to be installed on a SAN card, do the following to load the drivers:
a. Select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and press Tab.
b. Type linux DD, and then press Enter.
c. When the "Driver disk device selection" window is displayed, connect the USB storage device that
contains the drivers or the optical drive that contains the driver disc to your server. Then type 1 or 2
as you need and press Enter.
d. In the "Select drivers to install" window, select the drivers and then press Enter.
e. Type C and the driver loading process begins.
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