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Overview |
This book applies to the Sun Fire X4600 and Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers.
There are several supported operating system (OS) distributions and several ways to install each. This section is intended only as a general guide that refers you to detailed procedures. For a current list of supported operating systems for the Sun Fire X4600 Series server, refer to the following web site:
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/os.jsp
This document contains instructions for installing supported Solaris, Linux, and VMware ESX 3 operating systems.
You must complete the following steps before you can begin the installation.
In addition, you must decide the following.
For a current list of supported operating systems for the Sun Fire X4600 Series server, refer to the following web site:
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/os.jsp
See About Solaris OS Installation or Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5504. |
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See About the RHEL Installation or Red Hat Enterprise Linux documentation at https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ |
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See About SLES 9 Installation, or About SLES 10 Installation, or SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 or 10 documentation at http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse.html |
Assisted installation using Sun Installation Assistant (this method provides an easy-to-use process for locally, or remotely, installing your operating system), described in Chapter 2. |
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In general, you need to perform updates after the operating system has been installed. For details, see the appropriate chapter for your particular OS.
The sections in this guide provide installation information--see the appropriate chapter for your operating system.
You should also gather the installation, administration, and configuration documentation distributed with the operating system. These documents generally accompany the distribution media as printed manuals or are included as PDF files on the media. In many cases, you can download the latest versions of such documents from the web site of the OS vendor.
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