2.1Installing Linux Onto a B100x or B200x Blade
To install the Linux operating system onto a blade, you must first build a PXE boot installation environment.
The software required to build a PXE boot installation environment is available on the CD supplied with the blade.
To install Linux on B100x or B200x server blades you will need the following:
■The Sun Fire B1600 Platform Documentation, Drivers, and Installation CD. This CD includes the drivers required for installing Linux on a server blade, and all the documentation for the B1600 system chassis and its components.
■Installation CDs for the version of Linux you are installing. The following operating systems are supported in this release:
■Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 3.0
■Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Advanced Server 2.1 update 2
■SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, service pack 3
■A PXE boot server machine for installing Linux onto the server blade. This machine must be running one of the following operating systems:
■Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 3.0
■Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Advanced Server 2.1 update 2
■SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, service pack 3
■Solaris, version 9 or later.
Refer to Chapter 4 of the Sun Fire B100x and B200x Server Blade Installation and Setup Guide for information on how to perform a PXE boot installation.