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48 Using Server Assistant to Install an Operating System
Installing Your Operating System
Perform the following steps to determine if an operating system has been installed on your system:
1
Ensure that the keyboard, mouse, and monitor are connected to your system, and turn on your system.
2
Read and accept the software license agreement to continue.
Your system reboots. If a message appears and states that bootable drives do not exist or that an
operating system was not found, then an operating system has not been installed on your system. Have
your operating system CD available and continue with the next steps.
If an operating system has been preinstalled on your system, it is not necessary to continue with this
process. Locate the operating system’s
Installation Instructions
document that was provided with your
system and follow those instructions to complete the installation process.
Perform the following steps to install an operating system on your system:
1
Insert the
Dell™ PowerEdge™ Installation and Server Management
CD into the CD drive and restart
your system.
2
Select
Server Setup
on the
Server Assistant
main page.
3
Follow the step-by-step instructions to configure your hardware and to install your operating system.
NOTE: Remove the CD when you restart the system, or Server Assistant will start again.
For additional information about installing RAID, see Getting Started With RAID on the
Documentation CD.
You can use the Install Server Administrator icon to install Server Administrator without the installation
CD. On a system running Windows, clicking this icon brings up the standard installation interface. On a
system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, clicking this icon runs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
custom installation.
If you do not want to install Server Administrator, or you want to remove the installation files, you can
click the Delete Server Administrator Installation Files icon. After you confirm that you want to
continue, all Server Administrator files, including the icons, are removed.