Installing The Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 With Sp1 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Operating System Installation Manual

20. In the License Information window, select Yes, I agree to the License Agreement, and then click
Forward.
21. In the Set Up Software Updates window, configure the settings as you need, and then click Forward.
22. In the Finish Updates Setup window, click Forward.
23. Set your user name and password and then click Forward.
24. Set your time and date and then click Forward.
25. In the Kdump window, select Enable kdump if you want to enable kdump, and then click Finish
to complete the installation.
Note: When prompted to restart the server, click Yes.
26. Follow the instructions on the screen to log in to the operating system.

Installing the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with SP1 operating system

To install the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 operating system, do the following:
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 message Press any key to boot from cd or dvd... is displayed, press any key. If the message
Windows Setup [EMS Enabled] is displayed, press Enter. Wait several minutes for the system to load
the files.
3. Select the language as you need and then click Next.
4. When the "Enter your language and other preferences" window is displayed, configure the language and
other options as you need and then click Next.
5. Click Install now.
6. Read the license terms and select I accept the license terms. Then, click Next.
7. Select the type of installation as you need. The following steps are based on the scenario that Custom:
(Advanced) is selected in this step.
8. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, depending on the SATA configuration on
your server, do one of the following:
• For RAID (both onboard SATA software RAID and RAID card): do the following:
a. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver to your server and click Load Driver.
b. Click Browse to locate the required driver and then click OK.
c. In the "Select the driver to be installed" window, select Hide drivers that are not compatible
with hardware on this computer, select the driver that you want to install, and then click Next
to install the driver.
• For IDE: go to step 9.
• For AHCI: go to step 9. Be sure to install the AHCI driver after the operating system installation is
completed, see "Installing the driver for the SATA AHCI" on page 35.
9. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?" window, click Drive options (advanced).
10. Select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the operating system, and then click New.
11. Type the amount of space (in MB), and then click Apply.
12. In the Install Windows window, click OK.
13. Ensure that the drive partition is correct, and then click Next. The installation begins.
Note: Your server restarts several times during the installation.
14. When prompted, follow the instructions on the screen to change the password.
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