Products Owner's manual

70 • Chassis and Blade Installation R-Series Data Center Products User’s Guide
From the Support site, click PC Blades > R3040S > Drivers and then click
the link for the operating system you are installing.
b. Extract the RAID drivers in the archive file you just downloaded to a
3½-inch floppy disk (see the readme file in the archive for the location of the
RAID drivers).
c. Extract the remaining drivers to a storage device so you can install them
after installing the operating system.
2. As noted above, connect the external floppy drive and external optical drive to
the R3040S and insert the floppy disk and optical disk in the drives.
3. Place the operating system optical disk that you are installing in the optical drive.
4. Set the blade's boot priority to boot to the optical disc drive containing the OS
CD-ROM or DVD.
a. Start or restart the blade and press F2 to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
b. Use the arrow buttons to select the Boot menu, highlight Boot Device
Priority, and then press ENTER.
c. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to select the optical drive name.
d. Press and hold the SHIFT key and then press the + key one or more times to
move the optical drive to the top of the list, so it as listed as the 1st Boot
Device.
e. Press F10 to display a confirmation screen.
Select OK and then press ENTER to save your changes and exit setup. The
blade will reboot to the optical disk and start Windows Setup.
5. Press F6 when the
Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI
or RAID driver
message is displayed at the bottom of the screen (almost
immediately after Windows Setup starts). After you press F6, the installer
continues installation for several minutes.
6. Windows Setup displays a screen stating that it could not determine the type of
one or more mass storage devices, and that it will load support for
<none>. This is
normal operation.
Press S to specify drivers for the RAID disk controller.
If the drive is not connected, Windows Setup displays a message stating that it
could not find a floppy drive. If this is the case, connect the floppy drive and press
ESC to return to the screen. You can now press S and continue installation.
NOTE
Very shortly after the Windows Setup screen is displayed in the
following step, a message displayed on the bottom of the screen
prompts you to press F6 to install SCSI or RAID drivers. Be
prepared to press F6 very quickly after pressing ENTER, below.
NOTE
Before continuing, ensure that a floppy disk drive and the disk
with RAID drivers is connected to the blade (as described in step
2 above).