HP Installer Kit for Linux: Important Red Hat/SUSE Linux installation information

HP Installer Kit for Linux: Important

Red Hat/SUSE Linux installation

information

Your HP workstation was configured without a Linux Operating System (OS), as you requested. Hewlett-

Packard has offered this solution to allow you more flexibility in installing the Red Hat Linux OS or

SUSE Enterprise Linux OS of your choice.

The HP Installer Kit does not include an OS. To install your Linux OS, you must purchase a Red Hat

Linux box set or SUSE Enterprise Linux OS from the following Red Hat or Novell web sites and install

according to their instructions:

●

http://www.redhat.com

●

http://www.suse.com/products/#desktop

NOTE:

The OS must be downloaded from the web in order to be used with the Installer or Driver disk

in this kit.

Supported operating systems

Hewlett-Packard supports multiple versions of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux on HP workstations.

Depending on the vintage of the platform, these versions include:

●

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86-64)

●

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 x86 (32-bit) and AMD64/EM64T (64-bit).

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop (x86) and (x86_64).

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 6 (x86) and (x86_64)

NOTE:

Some of these OS streams might no longer be supported or available from the distributors.

Specific platforms are supported with OS releases that enable the hardware architecture and

components. Older releases might not work with newer hardware. Consult the

HP Workstations Linux

Hardware Matrix

and the OS distributor certification catalog for details.

To provide flexibility in installing a specific version of the Red Hat OS or the SUSE Enterprise Linux OS,

HP has created Installer and Driver disks. These disks are included in the HP Linux Installer Kit, and the

OS images (the .iso images) for these disks can be downloaded from the HP support web site at

http://www.hp.com/go/workstationsupport.

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HP Installer Kit for Linux: Important Red Hat/SUSE Linux installation information Your HP workstation was configured without a Linux Operating System (OS), as you requested. HewlettPackard has offered this solution to allow you more flexibility in installing the Red Hat Linux OS or SUSE Enterprise Linux OS of your choice. The HP Installer Kit does not include an OS.
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Linux Hardware Matrix Before installing SUSE or Red Hat Linux, refer to the HP Workstations Linux Hardware Matrix to verify that the hardware components installed on your workstation are supported by the specific release of SUSE or Red Hat Linux that you want to install. For the most recent matrix, visit http://hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix.