| Sun Blade X6250 Server Module Operating System Installation Guide |    
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Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS |
This chapter provides procedures for installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system on a Sun Blade X6250 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 X6250 server module. The three methods detailed in this chapter for installing the RHEL OS on your server are to use:
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 on a Sun Blade X6250 server module, consult the following RHEL documentation.
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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 |
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Available for download from http://www.redhat.com/docs/ manuals/enterprise/ |
After installing the RHEL software on the server, you might also need to update your system software with patches and packages. See Updating the RHEL Operating System for details.
To install RHEL updates on the Sun Blade X6250 server module, you will need to obtain the RHEL 4 Update Media Kit.
To obtain this kit, log into http://rhn.redhat.com.
You will 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.
| Note - The Sun Installation Assistant automatically installs this driver. You can skip this procedure if you use that application. For details, see Chapter 2. |
The LSI1068E SAS controller on your server module is new to the market. The driver for that SAS controller has not yet been made available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution, so Sun Microsystems has provided the driver on its Resource CD. To install this driver on your server, you must create a Red Hat-specific CD that contains an installation-ready driver image.
Before you create a Red Hat-specific Driver CD, you must have access to a functioning Linux server or Linux workstation that can burn a CD.
To create a Red Hat-specific Driver CD from the driver images distributed on the Resource CD, do the following.
1. Log in as root to the Linux server or workstation that has the CD recorder drive.
2. Determine the name of the recordable CD drive. Do one of the following:
The system reports the names of matching devices:
scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) ’SAMSUNG ’’CDRW/DVD SM-352F’’T900’Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) *
In this example, the name of the IDE CD device is ATAPI:0,0,0.
The system reports the names of matching devices:
scsibus4: 4,0,0 0) ’SONY’’DVD RW DRU-530A’’1.0e’Removable CD-ROM 4,1,0 1) * 4,2,0 2) *
In this example, the name of the SCSI CD device is 4,0,0.
3. Insert the Resource CD into the local system CD drive.
5. Copy the driver image to the local /tmp directory. Type:
# cp /mnt/cdrom/support/update_media/rhel4/64/driverUpdate.img /tmp
6. Unmount the Resource CD. Type:
7. Insert a blank CD-R disc into the CD recorder drive.
8. Create the Driver CD. Type:
# cdrecord dev=drivename /tmp/driverUpdate.img
Where drivename is the device name of the CD recorder you obtained in Step 2.
| Note - If you use a program other than cdrecord, it might warn you that driverUpdate.img is not a valid file. You can ignore this warning. |
9. Remove the newly created CD from the CD recorder when the recording process is complete and the CD recorder ejects the CD.
| Note - Use this Red Hat-specific Driver CD when you install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux software from the Red Hat distribution media. |
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.
Installing RHEL software from CDs consists of the following procedures:
1. Download the updated media kit from http://rhn.redhat.com.
See Obtaining Updated Media Kits.
See Updating the RHEL Operating System.
Installation from distribution media requires the following items:
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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 X6250 Server Module Product Notes.
This procedure describes how to configure your Sun Blade X6250 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 Sun Blade X6250 server module.
Before you configure your server to install RHEL from a PXE server, you need to have configured your Linux network to support a PXE server. See the Red Hat Linux documentation.
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1. Connect the PXE client to the same network as the PXE server, and power on the PXE client.
The PXE client is the target Sun Blade X6250 server module to which you are installing RHEL software.
2. When the PXE client prompts you for a network boot, 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 install image is downloaded onto the target Sun Blade X6250 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.
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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
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| Note - This driver is only 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
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| 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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