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Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide

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Contents

Preface

1. Installation Overview

2. Installing Solaris

2.1 Choosing and Updating the Operating System

2.2 Setting the BIOS for Solaris

2.3 Setting the LSI RAID Configuration

2.4 Erasing the Currently-Installed OS

2.4.1 About the Diagnostic Partition

2.4.2 Erasing Currently-Installed OS Procedure

2.5 Installing the Solaris OS

2.6 Installing Drivers

3. Installing Linux

3.1 Choosing and Updating the Operating System

3.2 Setting the BIOS for Linux

3.3 Setting the LSI RAID Configuration

3.4 Erasing the Currently-Installed OS

3.4.1 About the Diagnostic Partition

3.4.2 Erasing Currently-Installed OS Procedure

3.5 Installing the Linux OS

3.6 Installing Drivers

3.6.1 Installing the Linux Drivers

4. Installing the Windows OS and Drivers

4.1 Setting the BIOS for the Windows OS

4.1.1 Setting the System BIOS for Windows OS and Intel SATA and RAID

4.1.2 Setting the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM

4.1.3 Setting the LSI RAID Configuration

4.2 Understanding the Diagnostic Partition

4.3 Erasing Partitions on the Boot Hard Disk Drive

4.4 Installing Windows Manually

4.4.1 Creating an Intel SATA and RAID Drivers Diskette

4.4.2 Installing Windows Using the Diskette

4.4.3 Installing Windows Vista Using the Floppy Diskette

4.4.4 Installing NVIDIA Graphics and RealTek Audio Driver

4.5 Using the XpReburn Script to Create a Windows CD that Includes Drivers

4.5.1 Requirements

4.5.2 Using 2003Reburn or XpReburn

A. Installing Linux and Solaris OS Remote Images

A.1 Installing LINUX From a PXE Server

A.2 Installing Solaris From a JumpStarttrademark Server