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Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide

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Contents

Preface

1. Operating System Setup and Installation

Planning the Operating System Installation

Erasing the Primary Boot Hard Disk

Setting Up the BIOS for Operating System Installation

Setting Up the BIOS for the Windows Operating System

Setting up the BIOS for a Linux Operating System or Solaris 10 Operating System

Enabling SATA RAID Support

Configuring RAID

Creating the Diagnostic Partition on the RAID Disk

Configuring SAS RAID With an LSI SAS Card

Installing the Operating System

Running the up2date Utility

Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diagnostic Partition

Installing Linux Operating System Drivers

Installing Solaris Operating System Drivers

Installing Windows 2003/Vista/XP OS Drivers

Installing RAID Drivers Using the 2003Reburn/XPReburn Script

Installing RAID Drivers Using a Boot Diskette

Installing NVIDIA Display and Chipset Drivers for Windows 2003, Vista or XP

Installing Infineon TPM and RealTek Audio Drivers

Creating Windows Images on a RIS Server and Installing RIS Images

Creating a 32-bit Windows 2003 Enterprise and XP SP2 RIS Image

Creating the Windows XP SP2 32-bit Image on the RIS Server

Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Settings Files

Creating a 64-bit Windows 2003 Enterprise and XP RIS Image

Installing Windows 2003 Enterprise or XP 64-bit onto the RIS Server

Adding the NVIDA Ethernet Drivers to the Windows Image

Adding Other Drivers and Modifying Settings Files

Installing a RIS Image onto a Client Workstation

Configuring SLI Support

Enabling SLI for Windows XP and Vista

Enabling SLI for Linux

Downloading Sun N1 Grid Engine

2. Setting Up the Preinstalled Software

Configuring Solaris 10 Operating System Software

Licensing Information

Disk Configuration

Planning the Solaris Installation

Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris 10 Operating System

Setting Up Preinstalled Development Software

Sun Studio 11 Software

Sun Java Studio Creator 2

Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 Software

NetBeans IDE 5.0 ML

Restoring and Backing Up Preinstalled Software

Backing Up and Restoring the Solaris OS

Restoring Solaris Preinstalled Software

Backing Up the Preinstalled Image to Another Hard Drive

Hard Drive Mirroring