Important: The procedures and menu items described above may change as BIOS levels are revised.
4.2 Device drivers
Specific device drivers are available for the x440 that may not be included with the base operating system.
Drivers that you should obtain separately from the operating system include:
Broadcom Ethernet controller
Active
Remote Supervisor Adapter management processor
S3 Savage4 LT video controllers
ServeRAID
The required drivers as well as the latest versions of BIOS, service processor firmware, and diagnostics firmware are available from:
If you are implementing Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) check the Microsoft Cluster Service Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to confirm that hardware, drivers and firmware have been Microsoft Certified. The HCL can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp
4.3 Operating system installation
This topic will discuss the installation of the following operating systems on the
x440 hardware platform:
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
Red Hat Linux
Novell NetWare
In the following discussions we assume that disk subsystems, such as RAID arrays, for both operating system installations and data storage have been configured.
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