Sun Microsystems X2100 manual Software Installation, Preparing for Installation

C H A P T E R 2

Software Installation

This chapter includes the following sections:

■Section 2.1, “Preparing for Installation” on page 2-1

■Section 2.2, “Installing the Operating System” on page 2-4

■Section 2.3, “Running the up2date Utility” on page 2-5

■Section 2.4, “Installing Drivers and Mounting the Diagnostic Partition” on page 2-6

This chapter includes information on installing an operating system on your server, if you plan to use an operating system other than the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) preinstalled on the Sun Fire X2100 Server.

Diagnostics software is also included on the Sun Fire X2100 Server Supplemental CD. Instructions for using the diagnostics software are provided in the Sun Fire X2100 Server User Guide, 819-3721.

2.1Preparing for Installation

FIGURE 2-1for illustrates the process flow for installing an operating system on your server.

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