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Sun Ultra 20 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide

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Contents

Preface

1. Installation Overview

2. Installing Solaris and Linux

2.1 Choosing and Updating the Operating System

2.2 Setting the BIOS for Linux or Solaris

2.3 Understanding the Diagnostic Partition

2.4 Erasing Partitions on the Boot Hard Disk Drive

2.5 Running the up2date Utility

2.6 Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diagnostic Partition

2.6.1 Installing the Linux OS and Drivers

2.6.2 Installing the Solaris OS and Drivers

2.6.3 Log in to the system as superuser.

3. Installing the Windows OS and Drivers

3.1 Setting the BIOS for the Windows OS

3.1.1 Setting the System BIOS for Windows OS and NVRAID

3.1.2 Setting the NVIDIA RAID BIOS

3.1.3 Setting the LSI RAID Configuration

3.2 Understanding the Diagnostic Partition

3.3 Erasing Partitions on the Boot Hard Disk Drive

3.4 Installing Windows 2003/Vista/XP OS Drivers

3.4.1 Installing RAID Drivers Using the 2003Reburn/XPReburn Script

3.4.2 Installing RAID Drivers Using a Boot Diskette

A. Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images

A.1 Creating a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP SP2 32-bit Image on the RIS Server

A.1.1 Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

A.1.2 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Settings Files

A.2 Creating a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP 64-bit Image on the RIS Server

A.2.1 Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

A.2.2 Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Settings Files

A.3 Installing a RIS Image onto a Client Workstation

B. Installing Linux and Solaris OS Remote Images

B.1 Installing LINUX from a PXE Server

B.2 Installing Solaris from a Jumpstart Server