C H A P T E R 3 |
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS |
This chapter provides procedures for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system on a Sun Blade X6450 server module. If you have installed RHEL software on other Intel servers, you are already familiar with how to install it on a Sun Blade X6450 server module.
This chapter describes three methods of installing the RHEL OS on your server module:
This chapter contains the following sections:
This section provides RHEL reference information.
The Sun Installation Assistant (SIA) is a convenient, front-end application designed to assist you in installing supported versions of Linux on your server. SIA supplements the standard installation utilities and procedures that ship with your operating system; it does not replace them. For more on the SIA, see Chapter 2 and the Sun Installation Assistant for Windows and Linux User’s Guide (820-3357), and http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/sia.jsp.
Installing RHEL software consists of the following procedures:
1. Install the RHEL software. See either:
2. Update the RHEL software. See Updating the RHEL Operating System.
3. Update the server-specific software. See Updating the Server-Specific Software.
Before you install the RHEL software, consult the following RHEL documentation.
Contains late-breaking information about system requirements and system configuration for your version of the RHEL software. |
On the RHEL CD 1, and online from http://www.redhat.com/docs/ |
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Brief printed guide containing useful information to assist you during the installation of RHEL. |
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Included on the Red Hat Documentation CD, and available for download from http://www.redhat.com/docs/ |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Introduction to System Administration |
Available for download from http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ |
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Available for download from http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ |
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Information about configuring your server and Red Hat Linux for diskless booting. |
Available for download as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide for the x86, Itanium, and AMD64 Architectures at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ |
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Available for download from http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ |
Use the table below to identify the installation task and the relevant procedure.
Sun Installation Assistant for Windows and Linux User's Guide |
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RHEL provides both a text mode and an easy-to-use graphical interface for installing and configuring the operating system. At the boot prompt, you can select the interface that you want to use. Both options are shown later in this section.
Installation from distribution media requires the following items:
To Install RHEL From Distribution Media |
1. Connect your CD/DVD device.
a. Connect the USB CD/DVD drive into the USB port of the dongle.
b. Insert the RHEL Distribution CD 1 into the DVD/CD drive connected to the server module.
a. Press F8 during POST to enter the BBS Pop-up.
b. Select the CD/DVD device from the boot list.
The server boots from the selected media and displays a boot: menu.
3. At the boot prompt, select one of the following:
4. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide to guide you through the remainder of the installation process.
5. Update the operating system.
See Updating the RHEL Operating System.
If the installation process does not recognize the CD inserted, please refer to the Sun Blade X6450 Server Module Product Notes.
This procedure describes how to configure your server module to initiate the request to download the boot image file from the PXE/DHCP server and how to install the RHEL boot image on your server module.
Before you configure your server to install RHEL from a PXE server, you need to do the following:
To Install RHEL From a PXE Server |
1. Connect the server module to the same network as the PXE server, and power on the server module.
2. During POST, press the F12 key.
The PXE client connects to the PXE server and attempts to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server.
3. When prompted, press the F8 key to begin downloading the PXE boot image.
4. At the boot: prompt, type the label you gave the image when you installed a RHEL image on the PXE server.
The RHEL installation image is downloaded onto the target server module.
5. To configure the Linux operating system for your server, refer to the manual that is shipped with your RHEL media kit.
6. Update the operating system files.
See Updating the RHEL Operating System.
This procedure describes how to update the RHEL operating system.
Because software is constantly being updated, your distribution media might not contain the most up-to-date versions of the operating system.
Follow this procedure after your operating system is installed.
To Update the RHEL Operating System |
1. Navigate to the Red Hat web site.
2. Follow the instructions to update your RHEL operating system.
You need your enterprise account information to download the updated ISO images. An enterprise account is an account that the customer creates to access Red Hat's support network after purchasing the RHEL media kit.
This section describes how to install server-specific software from the Tools and Drivers CD.
The following procedures assume that you have already installed the RHEL OS and updates.
All files are located on the Tools and Drivers CD.
Note - This utility is only required for server modules equipped with a Sun Blade RAID 5 Expansion Module. |
cd /mnt/linux/tools/ASM/name/manager
where name is x86 for 32-bit, or x86_64 for 64-bit.
rpm -ihv StorMan-5.50.i386.rpm
rpm -ihv StorMan-5.50.x86_64.rpm
When the rpm command is done, you can start and use the SSTRM utility.
cd /mnt/linux/drivers/video cp lxdrv.tar.gz /tmp tar -zxf /tmp/lxdrv.tar.gz
2. Follow the instruction in README.txt to install the drivers.
3. When you are done, reboot the system to initialize the new driver:
reboot
To Install the LSI Driver |
Note - This driver is only required for server modules equipped with a Sun Blade RAID 0/1 G2 Expansion Module. |
cd /mnt/linux/drivers/lsi
rpm -ivh mptlinux-redhat4.0-3.13.04.00-1.i686.rpm
rpm -ivh mptlinux-redhat4.0-3.13.04.00-1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh mptlinux-4.00.42.00-1-rhel5.x86_64.rpm
2. When the rpm command is done, reboot the system to initialize the new driver:
reboot
To Install the MegaRAID Storage Manager |
Note - This utility is only required for server modules equipped with a Sun Blade RAID 0/1 G2 Expansion Module. |
cp MSM_linux_installer-2.35-01.tar.gz /tmp
tar -zxf /tmp/MSM_linux_installer-2.35-01.tar.gz
2. Follow the instruction in README.txt to install the utility.
When you are done, you can start and use the MSM utility.
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