Owners Manual

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in the UEFI mode
CAUTION: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
1 Ensure that your system is congured to boot in the UEFI mode.
For more information on how to enable the UEFI mode, see your systems documentation at www.dell.com/manuals.
2 Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 media in the optical drive.
NOTE: Ensure that the rst boot device is your optical drive. If the rst boot device is not your optical drive, go to UEFI
Boot Sequence and change the boot order.
3 Select Continue from the UEFI boot menu to boot from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 media.
The system boots from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 media and the Welcome to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 screen
is displayed.
4 Proceed with the installation until the Which type of installation would you like? screen is displayed.
5 Leave the default Use All Space option and select Review and modify partitioning layout.
6 Click Next.
7 Check if the partitioning scheme is as per your requirement, and click Next.
The Format Warnings screen displays a message that your boot disk will be formatted with a GUID partition table.
8 Click Format.
9 In the Write Storage Conguration to Disk screen, click Write changes to disk.
10 Install boot loader on /dev/sda1.
11 Continue with the installation.
After the installation is complete, check that the entry for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is added in UEFI Boot Manager, and use it to
boot the system. UEFI must be the default boot option and the system must boot into the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on devices that support
multipathing
CAUTION
: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the operating system.
1 Congure the storage array to enable multipathing.
To congure the storage array for your system, see the specic PowerVault system documentation at Dell.com/powervaultmanuals.
2 After the storage array is set up, follow the "Prerequisite Steps" for using multipath devices from the Dell EMC PowerVault MD3200
and MD3220 Storage Arrays Owner’s Manual at Dell.com/powervaultmanuals.
3 During the operating system installation, select Specialized Storage Devices in the Storage Devices page.
4 Click Next.
5 In the Storage Device Selection page, click the Multipath Devices tab.
6 Select the multipath device that is displayed on this screen and continue with the installation.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on iSCSI storage
CAUTION
: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6-based systems can connect to an iSCSI storage array either through the iSCSI software stack, an iSCSI Host
Bus Adapter (HBA), or an iSCSI ooad hardware.
Installation instructions and important information
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