Manual

Contents 5
3 RAID and Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . 29
Determining Your RAID Configuration. . . . . . . . . . 29
Software RAID
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Disk Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Initializing a Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Upgrading a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk
. . . . . 31
Reactivating Dynamic Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Merging Foreign Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Volume Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Checking Partition or Volume Properties
. . . . . . 33
Formatting a Partition or Volume
. . . . . . . . . . 33
Deleting a Partition or Volume
. . . . . . . . . . . 34
Working With Dynamic Volumes
. . . . . . . . . . 34
Working With Mirrors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4 Upgrading Your Operating System . . . . . 37
Operating System Upgrade Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Upgrading Your Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5 Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . 41
Installing Using the Server Management Media . . . . 41
Installing Additional Components
. . . . . . . . . 46
Installing Using the Operating System Media
. . . . . 46
Preinstallation Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a Device Driver Diskette
. . . . . . . . . 46