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Operating System Installation Overview |
This chapter gives an overview of the operating system (OS) installation process for Linux and the Solaris OS.
Note - Installation for Windows is covered in the Sun Fire X4500/X4540 Server Windows Operating System Installation Guide(820-0407). |
For additional information about disk management and monitoring utilities, refer to Sun Fire X4500/X4540 Server Administration Guide (819-6562).
There are several supported OS distributions and several ways to install each. This section is intended only as a general guide that refers you to detailed procedures.
You must complete the following before you can begin the installation:
Before you begin installing the OS, answer the following questions.
A list of supported operating systems for the Sun Fire X4500 series servers is available at http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/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 RHEL Installation or Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide at https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/. |
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See About SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Installation, or go to http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/index.html. |
In general, you might need to perform updates once the OS has been installed. For details, see the appropriate chapter for your particular OS.
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