Owner's Manual

By default, the boot to hard disk option is configured to boot to the second partition of the first hard disk
of primary controller master (hd0, 1). If the OS is installed in the other disk or partitions the GRUB boot
entry should be edited accordingly. Check GRUB manual for further details.
Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
At least 14.1GB disk space is required to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
If you use the Download RPMs from Network feature, the RPMs are downloaded to the partition called
/home. The recommended size for this partition is 3GB including the size of the RPMs you want to
update.
All downloaded RPMs are installed during the post install phase of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installer.
Entering a double quote character (") in the Root Password field of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installation results in denial of access to the root login.
SBUU limits the maximum block device size on a Linux system to 8TB.
For the network download of RPMs, the target system must have a DHCP IP address and the system
must be connected to a network.
After selecting languages using Select Language option like Chinese, in SBUU for installing a Red Hat
Linux operation system, the user has to change run level using init 5 command instead of startx for
applying the selected language.
Notes on Preparing Linux OS Installation Media
SBUU performs a media check on the Linux operating system media that is provided during installation.
This is to ensure that you do not copy damaged media that causes the operating system installation to
fail. This is a default action performed by SBUU and you cannot disable it.
It is recommended that you use the optical media obtained from the operating system vendor to install
Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux operating systems using SBUU. If it is necessary to burn the
media using optical drive burning software, make sure that you:
• Obtain the ISO image file of the media from known sources.
• Burn the media at slower speeds.
• Use the "Disk at Once" or a similar option.
• Close the session.
Notes for VMware ESX
For details on the hardware support and ESX build number, see www.dell.com/vmware.
Also, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Compatibility Guide and the Dell Systems Software
Support Matrix.
On a system with inbuilt SD card slot, if ESXi Installer and recovery OS is supported, it is shown in the
operating system list for all controllers, independent of whether the SD card is enabled or disabled
in the BIOS.
DVD/CD media used for ESXi HDD (5.0) and ESXi Flash (5.0) are the same.
Notes on Dell Utility Partition installation
Utility Partition is not created if the system on which you are trying to install does not support a Utility
Partition.
Notes on using syscfg and racadm Commands