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Chapter 4 Operating System Installation
Manual setup of the operating system is introduced with emphasis in this chapter,
including
Windows Server 2012 and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 [x64system].
During manual setup of the operating system, some operating systems may need
Inspur USB disk to load the HDD controller driver. Please refer to the attached Inspur
USB disk instructions for the making method of Inspur U disk driver and notes of
driver loading.
Enter the interface of driver making, you can check and make the controller drives
that need be loaded during operating system installation under relevant configuration.
The introduction of operating system installation in this chapter takes the server
configured with external LSI 9271-8i SAS RAID card as an example. If your server is
configured with other external RAID card, please refer to User Manual in the attached
CD to add the HDD controller driver. For NIC driver, graphics driver and system patch
program, the guidance in the chapter can also be referred to for setup.
It is suggested that you confirm in advance that whether the purchased machine
configuration supports the version of the installed operating system.
4.1 Manually Install Windows Server 2012
4.1.1 Preparation before installation
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Windows Server 2012 Installation CD (X86_64bit version)
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Inspur driver CD
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No need of adding controller driver for external LSI 9271-8i SAS RAID card
4.1.2 Installation steps
1. Connect USB drive to the server, power up and start the server, insert Windows
Server 2012 installation CD into optical drive, and select to boot from CD.
2. Press any key if the system prompts to confirm boot from CD. If not, the system
will start the Windows installation program from CD automatically. In Windows Boot
Manager interface, press [enter] to continue.
3. In the language and other preferences settings interface, select and set the
language to be installed and other preferences according to actual needs, then click
<Next> to continue.
