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30 Deploying Samba on IBM Eserver BladeCenter
3.1 Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.3
We will discuss three methods of installing Red Hat Linux on a BladeCenter system.
򐂰 CD installation
򐂰 Network installation
򐂰 PXE boot installation
The only difference between these is the means used to start the install. Once the installation
process is started, everything else is the same.
3.2 CD installation
This is the most direct and simplest method of installing Red Hat on a blade server. Since the
HS20 blade server uses USB CD-ROM, you must make a special boot disk with USB
support.
3.2.1 Creating the boot disk
Download the diskette image from:
http://people.redhat.com/msw/boot-usb-sleep-7.3.img
The diskette can be created on a Windows or Linux system. Using a Windows system, copy
the rawrite utility for DOS on Red Hat Install CD 1 in \dosutils\ to the hard drive. In a command
prompt, run rawrite and type in image name and diskette later when prompted. Using a
Linux system, run dd if=boot-usb-sleep-7.3.img of=/dev/fd0.
3.2.2 Installing Red Hat 7.3
In this section, we will install Red Hat on an IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS20 server. Perform
the following steps:
1. Insert the boot diskette into the diskette drive and Red Hat Install CD 1 into the CD-ROM.
2. Power on the blade server and press the Media Select and Console Select buttons on
the blade server.
3. At the Welcome to Red Hat Linux Version 7.3 window, press Enter.
Note: Do not switch the KVM from the blade server until the installation has proceeded to
install the packages after the About to Install window appears, otherwise the mouse will
lose functionality.