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Document Information

Preface

Related Books

About This Documentation (PDF and HTML)

Documentation Comments

Download Server System Tools and Drivers

Documents History

Hardware Installation and Product Notes

Hardware Installation

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Installation Guide

Installation Overview and Preparation

Installing the Server Into a Rack With Optional Slide Rails

Managing Your Server

Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console

Configuring the Factory--Installed Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System

Powering On and Powering Off the Server

Troubleshooting and Support

Product Notes

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Product Notes

Operating System Installation

Oracle Solaris Operating System

Planning the Oracle Solaris Operating System Installation

Installing Oracle Solaris 10 OS

Linux

Introduction to Linux Installation

Supported Operating Systems

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)

SIA Task Overview

Obtaining SIA

Preliminary Tasks Before Installing an OS

Accessing the Console During Installation

How to Configure the Serial Port

How to Erase Your Boot Hard Disk

Installing Oracle Enterprise Linux

Installing OEL from Distribution Media

How to Download OEL Media

How to Install OEL From Distribution Media

Updating OEL

How to Update the OEL Operating System

How to Update the OEL Drivers

Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Installing SLES10 or SLES11 From Distribution Media

Installing SLES10 Using Local or Remote Media

How to Install SLES10 Using Local or Remote Media

How to Install SLES11 Using Local or Remote Media

Installing SLES10 or SLES 11 Using a PXE Network Environment

How to Install SLES10 or SLES11 Using Network PXE Boot

Post SLES Installation Tasks

How to Update the SLES Operating System

Installing System Device Drivers to Support Additional Hardware

How to Install System Device Drivers Using Local or Remote Media

How to Install the System Device Drivers Using a Network Share or USB Device

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation

Installing RHEL From Distribution Media

How to Download RHEL Media Kits

How to Install RHEL From Distribution Media

Updating RHEL

How to Update the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software

Booting From OS Distribution Media

How to Boot From OS Media Locally

How to Boot From OS Distribution Media or ISO File Remotely

Configuring a Linux Server to Support PXE Installation

Overview of PXE Servers

How to Install and Configure a DHCP Server

How to Install Portmap on Your DHCP Server

How to Configure the TFTP Service on Your DHCP Server

How to Install and Configure the neopxe Boot Server Daemon

How to Configure the NFS Service on Your PXE Server

Disabling the Firewall

How to Disable the Firewall for SUSE Linux

How to Disable the Firewall for Red Hat Linux

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Oracle Enterprise Linux

How to Create a PXE Installation Image for Red Hat Linux

Creating a PXE Image for SUSE Linux

How to Set Up and Copy SUSE Software to a Directory

How to Set Up SUSE PXE Files

How to Install Linux From a PXE Server

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names for Linux OS Configuration

SUSE Linux - How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS

RHEL - How to Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the OS

Oracle VM

Installing Oracle VM

Windows

Planning the Operating System Installation

Installing Windows Server 2008 Operating System

Post Installation

Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM Image

Configuring RAID Controller in the BIOS Setup Utility

ESX

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Installation Guide for ESX Software

Preparing to Install VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0

Installing VMware ESX 4.0

Installing VMware ESXi 4.0

Booting Installation Media

Administration, Diagnostics, and Service

Administration Using ILOM

Overview of the ILOM Supplement

ILOM Feature Set

Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console

ILOM Platform Features for the Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server

Using ILOM to Monitor the Host

Updating Firmware

Diagnostics

Preface

Diagnostics Guide

Introduction to Diagnostic Tools

U-Boot Diagnostic Startup Tests

Pc-Check Diagnostics Utility

Accessing the Pc-Check Diagnostics Utility on the Tools and Drivers CD/DVD

Service

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Service Manual Organization

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Overview

Maintaining the Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Service Procedures and Information

Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Specifications

Index

How to Update the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software

Before You Begin

You must already have RHEL installed on your server.

Your server must have access to the Internet.

  1. Run the yum update program:
    # yum
  2. Answer the questions and make your choices before the packages are downloaded and installed.

    You should periodically update your system using yum.

    For more information, refer to the man page. Type:

    # man yum