Lenovo ThinkServer TD350, Installation Manual

Page: 94 / 122

Note: If your server comes with an onboard RAID card, download the readme files for the drivers from
the Lenovo Web site and follow the instructions to install the drivers.
2. 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.
3. Depending on your server configuration, do one of the following:
• If your SATA configuration is set to Add-on RAID, AHCI, or IDE, select Install Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.1 and press Enter.
• If your SATA configuration is set to onboard RAID, select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 and
press E. Type
inst.dd modprobe.blacklist=ahci
after
linuxefi...
, and press F10.
• If the operating system is to be installed on a SAN card, do the following to load the drivers:
a. Select Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 and press Tab.
b. Type
linux DD
and press Enter.
c. When the “Driver disk device selection” window is displayed, connect the USB storage device that
contains the drivers or the optical drive that contains the driver disc to your server. Then type
1
or
2
as you need and press Enter.
d. In the “Select drivers to install” window, select the drivers and then press Enter.
e. Type
C
and the driver loading process begins.
4. Select the language that you want to use during the installation process and click Continue .
5. Configure the date, time, language, and keyboard layout for the system.
6. In the INSTALLATION SUMMARY window, click SOFTWARE SELECTION , and then select the software
that you want to install.
Note: The following steps are based on the scenario that you select Server with GUI , select all of the
options on the right pane, and click Done .
7. In the INSTALLATION SUMMARY window, click INSTALLATION DESTINATION .
8. Select the drive partition on which you want to install the operating system. Then, click Done . If you
want to create a partition manually, do the following:
a. Select I will configure partitioning and then click Done . Do one of the following to create a partition:
• Manually create a root partition (/)
To create a root partition, do the following:
1) In the Manual Partitioning window, click + in the bottom left corner.
2) In the ADD A NEW MOUNT POINT window, select the forward slash (/) from the Mount Point
drop-down list box.
3) Type the amount of space (in MB) in the Desired Capacity field and then click Add mount
point .
4) Change Device Type to Standard Partition .
• Manually create a boot partition (/boot/efi)
To create a boot partition, do the following:
1) In the Manual Partitioning window, click + in the bottom left corner.
2) In the ADD A NEW MOUNT POINT window, select /boot/efi from the Mount Point drop-
down list box.
3) Type the amount of space (in MB) in the Desired Capacity field and then click Add mount
point .
• Manually create a swap partition
88
ThinkServer TD350 Operating System Installation Guide