Installing Drivers For A Red Hat Enterprise Linux As 6.4 Operating System - Lenovo ThinkServer RD540 Operating System Installation Manual

f. Type the amount of space (in MB) on the New Partitions Size window and then click OK.
• Manually create a swap partition
To create a swap partition, do the following:
a. Click Create. The Create Storage window is displayed.
b. Select Standard Partition and then click Create.
c. On the Add Partition window, select swap from the File System Type drop-down list box.
d. On the Allowable Drivers window, select the hard disk drive on which you want to install the
operating system.
e. Type the amount of space (in MB) on the New Partitions Size window and then click OK.
14. On the Format Warnings window, click Format to format the hard disk drive.
15. On the Writing storage configuration to disk window, click Write changes to disk.
16. On the Boot loader operating system list window, click Next.
17. The default installation is a basic server installation. You can customize your server by selecting a
different set of software from the software list or adding additional repositories that you want to use
for the software installation. Select Customize now or Customize later. Then, click Next. The
installation process begins.
Note: If you select Customize now, you can select software installation packages of your choice by
clicking Optional packages on the window displayed. Then, click Next.
18. After the installation completes, click Reboot to restart your server.
19. The installation continues after the server restarts. On the Welcome window, click Forward.
20. Click Yes, I agree to the License Agreement and then click Forward.
21. On the Set Up Software Updates window, configure the settings as you need, and then click Forward.
22. On the Finish Updates Setup window, click Forward.
23. Set your user name and password on the Create User window and then click Forward.
24. Set your time and date in the Date and Time window and then click Forward.
25. On the Kdump window, select Enable kdump as you need, 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 drivers for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.4 operating system

This topic provides instructions on how to install the HBA card driver for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.4
(x64 or x86) operating system.
Note: The drivers for the Ethernet card, onboard graphics card, and CNA card are installed during the
operating system installation.
To install the driver for an HBA card, do the following:
1. Copy the HBA card driver from the ThinkServer EasyStartup DVD to your local drive. Double-click the
EXE file to unzip it to a folder. Copy the folder to your USB storage device and connect the USB
storage device to your server.
2. Log in to the operating system and copy the folder from your USB storage device to the /tmp directory
on your server.
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