Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.5.8 for HP Integrity Servers

2 Operating System Installation
This chapter describes how to prepare your server for operating system (OS) installation, install
the RHEL 5.8 OS on your HP Integrity server, and obtain OS updates directly from Red Hat.
Installation Preparation
Before you begin installing RHEL 5.8 operating system (OS) on your HP Integrity server, ensure
that you have obtained:
• all necessary installation documentation, and
• the RHEL 5.8 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
5.8:
OS Installation Guide and Release
Notes
Red Hat provides the installation guide for OS installation
and is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 Installation Guide.
Additionally, release notes for the RHEL 5 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/
The HP Insight Foundation Suite for
Integrity with Linux
Documentation for the HP Insight Foundation Suite for
Integrity with Linux, including the HP Smart Setup application
and all complimentary HP value-added server management
software in the HP Support Pack which can be found at:
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/integrity/w1/en/software/
essentials-linux-on-integrity.html. The HP Insight Foundation
Suite for Integrity with Linux User's Guide describes how to
use HP Smart Setup utility to install RHEL 5.8, install and use
the server management software, and download the product
and is found:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/
SupportManual/c01861367/
c01861367.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
Recommendations and Known Issues The “Recommendations” (page 15) and “Known Issues”
(page 15) sections provide information that is helpful to be
aware of prior to installing RHEL 5.8.
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