3.From the Remote Control submenu, click the Redirection tab.

4.Click the Launch Redirection button to open a remote console screen.

5.Insert the operating system CD/DVD to be installed on the Sun Fire X4150 server into your laptop or local CD/DVD drive.

6.In the remote console screen, choose Storage –>Mount devices. The Device Configuration screens appears.

7.Under Storage 1, in the drop-down list, select the local CD/DVD that you will be using for the installation.

8.Click Submit.

9.Reboot the server.

The system will add the virtual CD-ROM to the boot order, and boot from it.

Other Remote Options

Command-line options that are available to address many of these tasks include IPMI tools (Chapter 6), CLI (Chapter 7), and SSH (Secure Shell).

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