Installation Components - Lenovo ThinkCentre A62 Deployment Manual

Note: For the Rescue and Recovery program, the OEM computers hard disk drive
must be configured according to recommendations in "Scenario 2 - Installing on
OEM systems" on page 54.
Support for booting from external media (CD/DVD and USB): Non-Lenovo
computer and devices (USB hard disk drive, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, or
DVD+R/RW) must fully support one or more of the following specifications:
v ATAPI Removable Media Device BIOS Specification
v BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services - 2
v Compaq Phoenix Intel
v El Torito Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification
v USB Mass Storage Class Specification Overview (Each device must comply with
the command block specification in the section 2.0 Subclass code in the "USB
Mass Storage Class Specification Overview.")
v USB Mass Storage specification for boot-ability
Video requirements:
v Video compatibility: VGA-compatible video that supports a resolution of 800 x
600 and 24-bit color
v Video memory:
– On non-shared video memory systems: a minimum 4 MB of video RAM
– On shared video memory systems: a minimum of 4MB and maximum of 8
MB can be allocated for video memory.
Application compatibility: Some applications that have complex filter driver
environments (such as antivirus software) might not be compatible with the Rescue
and Recovery software. For information regarding compatibility issues, refer to the
Readme file and various utilities that accompany the Rescue and Recovery
program. For additional information see the Lenovo Web site at:
http://www.lenovo.com/thinkvantage
Network adapters for the Rescue and Recovery program: The Rescue and
Recovery environment supports only wired PCI-based, Ethernet network adapters.
Network device drivers included in the Rescue and Recovery environment are the
same drivers that are pre-populated in Microsoft Windows operating system and
are independent of the Windows operating system. For supported Lenovo
computers, required drivers are included with the Rescue and Recovery program.
If an OEM network device in your computer is not supported, refer to the device
manufacturer documentation for instructions to add support for system-specific
network drivers. Request drivers from your OEM.

Installation components

This section contains installation components of the Rescue and Recovery program.
Administrative installation procedure
The Windows Installer can perform an administrative installation of an application
or product to a network for use by a workgroup or for customization. For the
Rescue and Recovery installation package, an administrative installation unpacks
the installation source files to a specified location.
You can obtain the setup package from:
http://www.lenovo.com/support
To perform an administrative installation, run the setup package from the
command line using the /a parameter:
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BIOS Boot Specification
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Chapter 2. Installation