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Sun Fire X4600 and X4600 M2 Servers Linux, ESX, and Solaris OS Installation Guide

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Contents

Preface

1. Overview

About Installing an Operating System on a Sun Fire X4600 Series Server

Prerequisites

Things You Must Decide

What to Do Next

2. Using the Sun Installation Assistant

About the Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

Features and Benefits

How to Get Started Using SIA

3. Installing Solaris 10

About Solaris OS Installation

Overview

Where to Find Solaris 10 Information

4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

About the RHEL Installation

Important RHEL Limitations

Red Hat Installation and Administration Documentation

Task Map for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation

Preparing to Install RHEL

Additional Software Updates or Patches

Obtaining Updated Media Kits

Installing RHEL From Distribution Media

Before You Begin

Required Items

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install From Local Media

Installing the RHEL Using the Remote Console Application

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install Using the ILOM Remote Console

Installing RHEL Using PXE

About Red Hat Enterprise Linux and PXE

Task Map

Preconfiguring Your Network to Support PXE Installation of RHEL

Required Items

Downloading the Tools and Drivers CD Image

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Copy Files From the Tools and Drivers CD

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Configure a DHCP Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install Portmap on Your DHCP Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Configure the TFTP Service on Your DHCP Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install and Configure the neopxe Boot Server Daemon

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Configure the NFS Service on Your DHCP Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Disable the Firewall

Creating a PXE Install Image on the PXE Server

Before You Begin

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Create a RHEL Image on Your PXE Install Server

Installing RHEL From a PXE Server

Before You Begin

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install a RHEL Image from a PXE Server

Updating the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System

Before You Begin

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Update the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Update the RHEL 5 Software

Updating the RHEL SCSI Drivers

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Update the RHEL SCSI Drivers

5. Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10

About SLES 9 Installation

SUSE Linux Installation and Configuration Documentation

Task Map for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Installation

Preparing to Install SLES 9

Installation Prerequisites

Making the Boot Drive Part of a RAID Configuration

Installing SLES 9 From Distribution Media

Required Items

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Perform a Basic Installation From Local CD/DVD Drive

Installing SLES 9 Using the Remote Console Application

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install SLES 9 Using the ILOM Remote Console Application

About SLES 10 Installation

SUSE Linux Installation and Configuration Documentation

Task Map for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation

Installing SLES 10 From Distribution Media

Required Items

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install SLES 10 From Distribution Media

Installing SLES 10 Using the Remote Console Application

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install SLES 10 From the Remote Console

Prerequisites for PXE Installation of SLES 9 and SLES 10

Required Items

Copying Files From the Tools and Drivers CD

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Copy Files From the Tools and Drivers CD

Configuring a DHCP Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Configure a DHCP Server

Installing Portmap

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install Portmap

Configuring the TFTP Service

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Configure the TFTP Service

Installing and Configuring the neopxe Boot Server Daemon

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install and Configure the neopxe Boot Server Daemon

Configuring the NFS Service

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Configure the NFS Service

Disabling the Firewall

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Disable the Firewall

Installing SLES 9 Using PXE

Task Map

Creating a SLES 9 Service Pack PXE Install Image on the PXE Server

Before You Begin

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Create a SLES 9 Service Pack PXE Install Image on the PXE Server

Installing SLES 9 SP3 From a PXE Server

Before You Begin

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install a SLES 9 SP3 Image From a PXE Server

Installing SLES 10 Using PXE

Required Items

Creating a SLES 10 PXE Install Image on the PXE Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Create a SLES 10 Image on Your PXE Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Set Up and Copy SLES 10 Software to a Directory

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Set Up PXE Files

Installing SLES 10 From a PXE Server

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Install SLES 10 From a PXE Server

Updating the SLES 9 or 10 Operating System

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Update Your SLES Operating System

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Update the SLES SCSI Drivers:

6. Installing VMware ESX 3

About VMware

VMware Installation and Administration Documentation

Task Map for VMware ESX Installation

Planning Network Interfaces

Installing VMware ESX from CD-ROM

Before You Begin

What to Do

VMware ESX Installation Requirements

How To Install From Local Media

VMware Updates and Patches

7. Installing VMware ESXi Installable

About VMware

VMware Installation and Administration Documentation

Task Map for VMware ESXi Installable Installation

Installing VMware ESXi Installable from CD-ROM

Before You Begin

What to Do

VMware ESXi Installable Installation Requirements

How To Install From Local Media

VMware Updates and Patches

A. Configuring RAID for Any Operating System from the BIOS

B. Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing a SUSE Linux OS

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Launch the User Shell and Identify the Network Interfaces

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing a RHEL Linux OS

procedure iconsmall spaceLaunch User Shell and Identify Network Interfaces

C. Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Solaris OS Installation

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for a Pre-installed Solaris OS

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing a Solaris OS

procedure iconsmall spaceLaunch User Shell and Identify Network Interfaces

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