Lenovo ThinkServer RD550, Operating System Installation Manual

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• If your SATA configuration is set as RAID (both onboard SATA software RAID and RAID card or the
operating system is to be installed on a SAN card, do the following to upgrade the corresponding
drivers:
a. When the message displays as “Press any key to enter the menu”, press any key.
b. In the GNU GRUB Version window, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 , and then press E.
c. Select Kernel/images/preboot/vmlinuz , and then press E.
d. Type
DD
, and then press Enter.
e. Press B.
f. In the “Do you have a driver disk?” window, select Yes .
g. In the Driver Disk Source window, select the location of the drivers and then select OK .
h. When the Driver Disk Source window is displayed again, select OK .
i. In the Select driver disk image window, select your desired drivers and then click OK .
j. When the message displays as “Do you wish to load any more driver disks?”, select NO . The
driver installation is completed.
• If your SATA configuration is set as IDE or AHCI , go to step 3.
3. When the Disk Found window is displayed, select Skip and then press Enter.
Note: If the operating system is installed on the SAN card through iSCSI, the Networking Device window
is displayed. Select the desired Ethernet device , and then click OK . In the Configure TCP/IP window,
select the option according to the network environment. The following steps are based on the scenario
that
Enable lpv4 support->Dynamic IP configuration (DHCP) is selected.
4. In the REA HAT window, click Next .
5. Select the language that you want to use during the installation process and click Next .
6. Select the appropriate keyboard layout for the system and click Next .
7. Select the type of devices that are involved in the installation, and then click Next .
Notes:
• If the Storage Device Warning window is displayed, click Yes, discard any data . If the message
displays as “At least one existing installation has been detected on your system. What would you
like to do?”, select the option as you desired and then click
Next .
• If the operating system is to be installed on the SAN card through an iSCSI card, select Specialized
Storage Devices , and then click Next . When the message displays as “Please select the drives
you’d like to install the operating system on...”, select Remote SAN in Other SAN Devices window,
and then click Next .
• If the operating system is to be installed on the SAN card through an FCOE card, select Specialized
Storage Devices , and then click Next . When the message displays as “Please select the drives
you’d like to install the operating system on...”, select SAN disk in Basic Devices window, and
then click Next .
8. Type a name for your server. Then, click Next .
9. Specify your time zone by selecting the nearest city in your time zone. Then, click Next .
10. Personalize the server by typing the root password for the root user account. Then, click Next .
Note: If a message prompts you that the password is weak, click Use Anyway .
11. In the Which type of the installation would you like window, select your desired option. The following
steps are based on the scenario that Create Custom Layout is selected in this step.
12. By default, a partition is already selected for you to install the operating system. If you want to create a
partition manually, select the option as you need and then click Next .
Chapter 2
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Installing an operating system in UEFI mode
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