Owner's Manual

14 Installation Instructions and Important Information

NOTE: Upon reboot, the system prompts you to press a key to boot to

the

operating system media. If you do not press a key, the system boots to

the hard drive.

It is recommended that you update your system with the drivers extracted in

step 4, after the operating system installs.

The extracted drivers are located at: /oemdrv.

NOTE: All the copied drivers are removed after 18 hours. You must complete the

operating system installation within 18 hours. To remove the drivers before 18 hours,

reboot the system, press <F10> and re-enter Dell USC.

Use the following command to install the drivers:

rpm -UvH *rpm

For more information, see the Dell Unified Server Configurator-Lifecycle

Controller Enabled User Guide at support.dell.com/manuals.

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 9

To install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 9, download the files from the

Red Hat Network (RHN).

NOTE: There is no media available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 9.

NOTE: If you already have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 8 installed, follow the

installation procedure given below to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 9. If

you are a new customer, install the desired version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

update 8 using your preferred method, and then upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 4 update 9 by following the installation procedure below.

Ensure that you have access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 9

files.

Ensure that up2date version is at least

up2date-4.9.1-28.el4

and

up2date-

gnome-4.9.1-28.el4

. If not, follow the procedure below:

Download

up2date-4.9.1-28.el4.<your architecture>.rpm

and

up2date-gnome-4.9.1-28.el4.<your architecture>.rpm

by using the

up2date up2date

command.

Execute

rpm -Uvh up2date-4.9.1-28.el4.<your

arch>.rpm up2date-gnome-4.9.1-28.el4.<your

architecture>.rpm --force

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