Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.7 for HP Integrity Servers

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This chapter describes how to prepare your server for operating system (OS) installation, install

the RHEL AS 4.7 OS on your HP Integrity server, and obtain OS updates directly from Red Hat.

Installation Preparation

Before you begin installing RHEL AS 4.7 operating system (OS) on your HP Integrity server,

ensure that you have obtained:

• all necessary installation documentation, and

• the RHEL AS 4.7 for the Intel® Itanium® Processor installation media set.

The following sections describe how to prepare for your OS installation.

Installation Documentation

HP encourages you to review each of the following documents before you begin installing RHEL

AS 4.7:

OS Installation Guide and Release Notes

Red Hat provides the installation guide for OS installation and is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux

4 Installation Guide for the x86, Itanium™, and AMD64 Architectures.

Additionally, release notes for the RHEL 4 distribution are provided by Red Hat. These

documents are provided with an original OS distribution release notes document

(RELEASE-NOTES-en) and separate update release notes documents for each subsequent

OS update (RELEASE-NOTES—U1–en, RELEASE-NOTES—U2–en, RELEASE-NOTES—U3–en,

and so on).

These documents are available on the Red Hat media that shipped with your server, or you

can download it in various formats from the RHEL Documentation website:

https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux

Documentation for the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux, including the HP

Smart Setup application and all complimentary HP value-added server management software

in the HP Support Pack, are shipped on media with your system. The HP Integrity Essentials

Foundation Pack for Linux User's Guide describes how to use HP Smart Setup utility to install

RHEL AS 4.7, install and use the server management software, and download the product

and is found:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-3193/index.html

Recommendations and Known Issues

The “Recommendations” (page 11) and “Known Issues” (page 11) sections provide

information that is helpful to be aware of prior to installing RHEL AS 4.7.

Downloading RHEL from the Red Hat Website

In the event that you chose to not receive a media kit from HP containing the RHEL software or

you need to create a copy of the RHEL AS 4.7 media, you must download the RHEL operating

system directly from the Red Hat website.

NOTE: It is necessary to register at the Red Hat website prior to download, which requires the

activation code that you received from HP when ordering RHEL.

www.redhat.com/rhn

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