User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Locating HP resources
- Computer features
- Setting up the computer
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- Using Windows tools
- Creating HP Recovery media (select products only)
- Restoring and recovery
- Restoring, resetting, and refreshing using Windows tools
- Restoring using HP Recovery Manager and the HP Recovery partition
- Recovering using HP Recovery Manager
- Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only)
- Recovering using HP Recovery media
- Changing the computer boot order
- Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only)
- Setting up Linux
- Updating the computer
- Maintenance, diagnostics, and minor troubleshooting
- Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics
- Routine care
- Accessibility
- Index
Installing SLED with the HP driver disc
1. If an HP driver disc did not come with your computer, create one (see HP Linux driver discs on page 21).
2. Install the operating system using the discs included in the SUSE box set.
3. After successfully installing the operating system, reboot the computer.
4. Insert your HP driver disc. The driver installation software automatically starts. Follow the on-screen
instructions to install the contents.
Setting up Ubuntu
HP oers a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS preload on some Z-series computers and supports 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04
on other computers.
Various versions of Ubuntu are certied and supported by Canonical on HP computers. For more information,
go to the Ubuntu Desktop certied hardware search page at http://www.ubuntu.com/certication/desktop
and search for your computer product.
Using the HP driver disc
Ubuntu does not require registration to obtain software package updates. Updates can be obtained from
various repositories on the web using a variety of tools built into the OS. An Internet connection and proxy
may be all that are required.
The HP-provided Linux driver disc for Ubuntu relies on the same mechanisms in order to satisfy dependencies
during installation. So the same Internet access is needed, as well as capability to elevate from the current
user session to administrator privileges.
In some cases, HP-tested proprietary graphics drivers may be the only “payload” delivered by the driver disc.
1. Install the operating system from your own installation media.
Ubuntu is available at no cost from http://www.ubuntu.com.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Insert your HP driver disc. The driver installation software automatically starts.
4. When prompted for the administrator password, type the password in the eld.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the drivers appropriate to your hardware conguration.
Proprietary graphics drivers
Most HP computers can be ordered with graphics cards that have been through extensive verication by HP.
For a list of supported cards, see Linux Hardware Matrix for HP Workstations at http://www.hp.com/support/
linux_hardware_matrix.
NOTE: Not all graphics cards are supported on every computer. Limitations generally occur for cards that
consume large amounts of power in lower-power computers.
Third-party proprietary graphics drivers are supported by HP. The list of graphics vendors is available with
the SLED 11 and Ubuntu preloads on Z-series computers, and from HP support at https://support.hp.com/us-
en/products/workstations-thin-clients/.
These proprietary drivers are not a standard part of the RHEL, SLED, or Ubuntu distributions because they are
not open source. Driver revisions more recent than those at the HP support website are supported directly by
the vendor.
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