Before You Begin
Prepare the server storage drives. For more information, refer to the Configure Server Drives for OS Installation in Sun Server X4-4 Installation Guide .
You should have already selected your BIOS boot mode (Legacy or UEFI) as described in Preparing to Install the OS.
You should have already done the preparation for a local or remote installation as described in Preparing to Install the OS. Then perform one of the following:
Local installation: Have the OS distribution media available to insert into the attached physical CD/DVD-ROM drive or USB port.
Remote installation: Perform one of the following:
If your OS distribution media is a DVD-ROM or USB image, insert it into the remote client's DVD-ROM drive or USB port and mount it through the Oracle ILOM Remote Console KVMS > Storage menu.
If you are using an ISO image of the OS distribution media, ensure that the image is mounted through the Oracle ILOM Remote Console KVMS > Storage menu.
Review the OEM OS installation guide available with the media kit.
If you are using the remote installation method, you can power on or reboot the server through Oracle ILOM.
BIOS messages appear.
After a delay, a "select boot device" menu appears with a list of possible boot devices.
For a local installation, insert the Linux distribution media into the server's CD/DVD drive, select it from the list of devices and press Enter.
For a remote installation, select the client's remotely mounted virtual CD/DVD drive and press Enter.
Control passes to the OS installation program on the media.
The Choose a Language screen appears.
The Keyboard Type screen appears.
The Setup Network screen appears.
The Rescue screen appears.
The user shell appears.
# ifconfig -a
The output of the Linux named network interfaces appear.
If you have multiple network interfaces and the output of interfaces scrolls off the top of the screen, you can display the output per interface.
# ifconfig eth#
where eth# is the interface number. For example, if you type:
# ifconfig eth0
the output for eth0 appears:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:8D:52:BE inet addr:10.182.92.196 Bcast:10.182.93.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::214:4fff:fe8d:52be/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:14461296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1061312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1282625453 (1.1 GiB) TX bytes:118834056 (113.3 MiB) Interrupt:54 Base address:0xc000
# reboot
boot: linux text
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