HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade Linux Installation white paper

linux askmethod ethtool="speed=1000, duplex=full, autoneg=off"

• To avoid encountering a problem when installing RHEL4U4 to a Fibre Channel connected

drive, include the nostorage kernel parameter when booting then add the correct

drivers as follows:

a. When prompted with Would you like to select drivers now?, select

Yes.

b. Select Add Device.

c. Add any devices you have added to the BL860c server blade in the following order:

i. LSI Logic Fusion MPT SAS Driver (mptsas)

ii. Qlogic 2400 (qla2400)

For additional installation information, see the Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise

Linux ES v.4 Update 4 for HP Integrity Servers.

• By default only the serial console is detected so it does not need to be specified. If you

want to specify it, use console=ttyS0.

• By default, RHEL4U4 installs from the local CD. At the ELILO boot:, use the

askmethod kernel parameter to enable the selection of an installation method (local

CD, hard drive, NFS image, FTP, or HTTP); the RHEL4U4 default is to install from

media.

2. Select the installation language.

3. Select one of the following installation methods:

Local DVD device for installing from RHEL4U4 distribution media, whether a

physically connected DVD drive or vMedia.

Hard drive if the ISO images have been copied to a local hard driver partition.

NFS image, FTP, or

HTTP

depending on the type of network repository you set up. The

network interface and the location of the repository must be

identified as follows:

a. Select the appropriate networking device (for example, eth0)

b. Click OK to use DHCP to configure the network device.

c. Enter the name of the server or the IP address and the path to

the installation repository on the network server.

The installation begins by starting Anaconda, which is the Red Hat installation utility.

4. Follow the on screen instructions to complete the RHEL4U4 installation.

After RHEL4U4 is installed, follow the instruction install the management agents and utilities

as described in Chapter 5 of the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux User Guide found

at:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-6413/index.html

Installing SLES10

Use the following steps to install SLES10: