Owner's Manual

Notes
• To use the RAID configuration feature of SBUU to configure RAID and install the operating system, the
Fast Initialization parameter of the RAID controller must be set to ON. This setting is the factory default
for all RAID controllers.
• Do not insert or remove any hot-swappable drives until the operating system is completely installed
while using SBUU. The results may be unpredictable and the installation may fail.
• Replication is supported on systems with multiple controllers, provided the controllers are in an
initialized state. This is applicable to both master and target systems.
• If you configure RAID manually and use SBUU to install an operating system on a master system, then
you must manually configure RAID on the target system too.
• Use local accounts for creating the SMB share on Windows on which the RPMs reside for the network
download feature.
• SBUU does not support the installation of Tape or Fiber Channel drivers with the operating system
installation. You can download the drivers for these devices from the Dell Systems Service and
Diagnostics Tools on the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD or from
support.dell.com.
• The Keyboard Type locale option offered for a keyboard layout on the SBUU Home page is for
navigating the SBUU pages only. The selected keyboard layout setting is not passed to the installed
operating system.
• In the Firmware Update page, if you select Refresh USB devices, you must wait for the devices to be
listed, else, a popup appears indicating that no devices could be found.
• USB keys formatted with New Technology File System (NTFS) or File Allocation Table (FAT16) are not
supported.
• Any network or Windows share or CD/DVD that you use as an input to the Repository must not contain
any file or folder that is not part of the Server Update Utility (SUU) content.
• When you insert multiple USB keys into your system, SBUU uses the last inserted USB key which has a
repository that is applicable to the platform to which your system belongs, and is compatible with the
SBUU repository.
• The selections on Set the Date and Time page in SOI will show default values (not the values selected
earlier), when you re-visit the page by clicking Back or Edit. The values you selected are stored
internally and applied to the system when you choose to apply them.
• The Advanced Mode allows you to specify the size of the virtual disk. The specified value is used while
creating RAID and not validated against the existing disks on the system.
• The values configured in the multi-sys-config.csv file are applied only during execution. Only those
options that are shown during configuration time are applied. However, options that are not shown
during configuration, but are part of multi-sys-config.csv file are ignored.
If there is any overlap in the settings between Configuration GUI and multi-sys-config.csv file, then the
settings in multi-sys-config.csv file override those made in the GUI.
• The installation times for different versions of the Windows Server 2008 operating system vary
considerably. This is because of the differences in the software and drivers used in different versions of
the Windows Server 2008 operating systems and the capabilities of the installation platform. On the
Installing Windows screen, the Completing installation step, where the drivers are installed, may take
considerable time to complete.