ProLiant ML150 Server NOS - (English) Installation and Software Guide

Installing Red Hat Linux 9.0 Professional
Section 1. Performing the Red Hat Linux Installation
Booting
1. Boot your new server from the Red Hat 9.0 Professional Installation CD-ROM.
2. When you see the boot: prompt, press the Enter key.
3. If your correct SCSI controller was correctly detected, you should see a Loading
SCSI Driver window appear with the name of the SCSI controller in your
system.
4. Next, you should see the Welcome to Red Hat Linux screen. Click Next.
Installation Settings
1. On the Language Selection screen, select English and click Next.
2. On the Keyboard Configuration screen, select U.S. English and click Next.
3. On the Mouse Configuration screen, select the appropriate mouse for your
system, and click Next.
4. On the Installation Type screen, choose the type of installation to be performed.
Select Server or Custom.
Disk Partitioning
1. On the Disk Partitioning Setup screen, choose Manually partition with Disk
Druid. Click Next.
2. You may see a warning dialog box pop up that says, “The partition table on
device xxx was unreadable, would you like to initialize this drive?” Click Yes
upon all such dialog boxes.
3. Locate the drive you wish to install to/boot from. If there are existing partitions
on this drive, select them and click Delete. A warning dialog box will come up to
confirm the deletion, click Delete. Repeat this for every partition on this drive.
Note that the partitions and all data within them will be lost.
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