Lenovo ThinkServer TS430 Operating System Installation Manual page 15

Installing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 operating system
This topic provides instructions on how to install a Red Hat
or 64-bit).
To install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 operating system (32-bit or 64-bit), do the following:
Notes:
• Ensure that you have prepared all the required items before installing an operating system. See "Before
installing an operating system" on page 1.
• Follow the instructions on the screen in addition to the instructions in this topic.
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation welcome window opens, type linux dd noprobe=ata1
noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3 noprobe=ata4 after boot:, and then press Enter.
Notes: If your server is in one of the following situations, go to step 6.
• The SATA configuration on your server is set to IDE or AHCI
• The disk array on your server is configured on a RAID card
3. When a dialogue box opens asking you if you have a driver disk, select Yes, and then press Enter.
4. When the Insert Driver Disk dialogue box opens notifying you that your driver disk will be inserted,
select OK, and then press Enter.
5. When a dialogue box opens asking you if more driver disks are needed, select No, and then press Enter.
6. When a dialogue box opens asking you if you want to check the hard disk drive, depending on your
needs, select OK to do the check and select Skip to skip the check.
7. When the REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 installation window opens, click Next.
8. Select the language that you want to use during the installation, and then click Next.
9. Select the appropriate keyboard for the system, and then click Next.
10. When a window opens prompting you to type the installation number, type it or click Skip. The
installation number enables the automatic installation of some software programs such as the
storage clustering programs and the virtualization programs. You can obtain the installation number
at http://www.redhat.com/InstNum/. You also can skip this step and manually install the software
programs later.
11. Select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, and then click Next.
12. By default, a partition is already selected for you to install the operating system. If you want to manually
create a partition, select one of the following:
• Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout
• Remove Linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout
• Use free space on selected drives and create default layout
• Create custom layout
13. The Create custom layout option will be taken as an example in this manual to show how to manually
create a partition. After you select Create custom layout, do one of the following:
• Manually create a root partition (/)
To create a root partition, do the following:
a. Click New.
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Enterprise Linux 5.6 operating system (32-bit
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