Supported Operating Systems - Dell PowerEdge systems 6300 User Manual

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 Win-
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dows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT, the system automatically
starts the browser software and displays the documentation welcome page.
From the browser, you can select the Library option to access all available online doc-
uments in .pdf format. Adobe™ Acrobat Reader must be used to view or print the
online documents and can be installed from the CD. When you select one of the
online manuals, the Adobe Acrobat Reader launches, and you can view or print the
online manual.
The Create Diskettes category allows you to create blank formatted diskettes as well
as diskettes of system utilities and operating system-specific drivers. The following
subsections describe the options available in this category.
This option allows you to create blank formatted diskettes.
This option allows you to create bootable utility diskettes for running the RCU and the
PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller configuration utility. The following subsec-
tions describe the choices available with this option.
This option allows you to create a bootable system configuration utility diskette (or
diskettes). Dell recommends running the RCU from a diskette so you can copy your
configuration information to the diskette any time you change system configuration
parameters.
This option allows you to copy the configuration utility for the optional PowerEdge
Expandable RAID Controller from the CD to a bootable diskette.
This option allows you to create a bootable diagnostics diskette.
This option allows you to create a diskette that contains the software drivers for a spe-
cific operating system. You can create a diskette of drivers for one of the following

supported operating systems:

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Novell NetWare 4.11
Using the Dell Server Assistant CD 2-5