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Chapter 3 Operating System Installation
This Chapter mainly introduces how to install operation system into the server.
● Use OS Disk Guide to install manually
During manual setup of the operating system, some operating systems may need
the floppy driver or Inspur driver CD to load the driver of hard disk controller. Refer to
the readme.pdf file under the root directory in Inspur driver CD for the making method
of the driver floppy disk. Refer to the Inspur Driver U disk Manual for how to make In
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spur Driver U disk and considerations during driver loading.
Log into the driver making interface of Inspur driver CD to check and make con-
troller drivers required during Operating System Installation under relative configura
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tions. All the descriptions about manually OS installation in this Chapter is based on 64
bit system.
The installation introduction illustrates how to install OS under external Intel®
RSTe 3.0 RAID configurations. If your server is configured with other external RAID
cards, please refer to the User Manual in the disk attached for how to add hard disk
controller drivers. For network card driver, graphics driver and system patches, please
still refer to this Chapter.
Please first confirm that the configurations of your server supports the operation
system to be installed.
3.1 Manually Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
3.1.1 Preparation Prior to Installation
●Windows Server2008 R2 Enterprise Installation Disk (X86_64bit version)
● Inspur Driver CD
3.1.2 Installation Steps
1. Power up and start the server, put the installation CD of Windows Server 2008
R2 into the optical drive and boot the server from the CD.
2. When the system prompts “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD”, press any
key. If there is no prompt, the system will start Windows installation program from CD.
3. Select or set the language and other items in the language setting interface, and
