Dell PowerEdge 6350 User Manual page 26

The Dell Server Assistant CD provides important system utilities and documentation
that you need to configure and maintain your system. The CD has an easy-to-use
graphical user interface that enables you to quickly navigate to any data on the CD
that you need. In addition, you are given a choice of several languages in which to
view and use the CD interface.
The Dell Server Assistant CD makes system setup and configuration as convenient as
possible with clear, on-screen instructions and a number of automated configuration
utilities. In addition to the setup utilities, the CD allows you to create blank formatted
diskettes as well as diskettes of system utilities and operating system-specific drivers.
You can also use the CD to re-create the utility partition on the hard-disk drive of your
system if the existing utility partition ever becomes unusable or gets deleted from
your system.
You can access the online system documents, as well as other information, on any
desktop or server system that has a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or
Netscape Navigator. When you put the CD in a system running the Microsoft
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Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT, the system automatically
starts the browser software and displays the documentation welcome page. The
documents can either be viewed online or printed on a printer for hardcopy viewing.
Also, if you have access to the Internet, the CD contains several useful and informa-
tive links to external Internet Web sites to provide you with up-to-date information and
downloadable system files.
The utility partition is a bootable partition on the hard-disk drive that provides some of
the functions available on the Dell Server Assistant CD. Most of the applications
found on the CD are contained in the utility partition, occupying approximately
10 megabytes (MB) of space on the system's hard-disk drive. When implemented,
the partition boots and provides an executable environment for the partition's utilities.
When the partition is not implemented, it is designated as a non–MS-DOS partition.
NOTE: The utility partition provides only limited MS-DOS functionality and cannot be
used as a general-purpose MS-DOS partition.
Dell has installed the utility partition on your hard-disk drive; however, reinstalling the
utility partition and/or its contents may be necessary if the version installed by Dell
becomes damaged or is removed from the hard-disk drive. You can reinstall the utility
partition and/or its contents using the Dell Server Assistant CD.
To start the utility partition, press the <F10> key during POST.
Like the Dell Server Assistant CD, the utility partition provides a menu-driven interface
from which you invoke the partition's utilities. Selections can be made using either a
keyboard or a mouse. Menu options and the associated help are displayed in the
currently selected language (specified via a menu option).
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