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FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.Tolearnmore

abouttheversionthatyouhave,starttheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCDandviewtheonline

overview.Notallfeaturesaresupportedonallservermodels.

TheServerGuideprogramhasthefollowingfeatures:

•Aneasy-to-useinterface

•Diskette-freesetup,andconﬁgurationprogramsthatarebasedondetectedhardware

•Devicedriversthatareprovidedfortheservermodelanddetectedhardware

•Operating-systempartitionsizeandﬁle-systemtypethatareselectableduringsetup

TheServerGuideprogramperformsthefollowingtasks:

•Setssystemdateandtime

•Detectsinstalledhardwareoptionsandprovidesupdateddevicedriversformostadaptersanddevices

•Providesdiskette-freeinstallationforsupportedWindowsoperatingsystems

•Includesanonlinereadmeﬁlewithlinkstotipsforyourhardwareandoperating-systeminstallation

Setupandconﬁgurationoverview

UsethisinformationfortheServerGuidesetupandconﬁguration.

WhenyouusetheServerGuideSetupandInstallationCD,youdonotneedsetupdiskettes.Youcanusethe

CDtoconﬁgureanysupportedLenovoservermodel.Thesetupprogramprovidesalistoftasksthatare

requiredtosetupyourservermodel.OnaserverwithaServeRAIDadapterorSAS/SATAcontrollerwith

RAIDcapabilities,youcanruntheSAS/SATARAIDconﬁgurationprogramtocreatelogicaldrives.

Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.

Typicaloperating-systeminstallation

ThissectiondetailstheServerGuidetypicaloperating-systeminstallation.

TheServerGuideprogramcanreducethetimeittakestoinstallanoperatingsystem.Itprovidesthedevice

driversthatarerequiredforyourhardwareandfortheoperatingsystemthatyouareinstalling.Thissection

describesatypicalServerGuideoperating-systeminstallation.

Note:FeaturesandfunctionscanvaryslightlywithdifferentversionsoftheServerGuideprogram.

1.Afteryouhavecompletedthesetupprocess,theoperating-systeminstallationprogramstarts.(You

willneedyouroperating-systemCDtocompletetheinstallation.)

2.TheServerGuideprogramstoresinformationabouttheservermodel,serviceprocessor,harddiskdrive

controllers,andnetworkadapters.Then,theprogramcheckstheCDfornewerdevicedrivers.This

informationisstoredandthenpassedtotheoperating-systeminstallationprogram.

3.TheServerGuideprogrampresentsoperating-systempartitionoptionsthatarebasedonyour

operating-systemselectionandtheinstalledharddiskdrives.

4.TheServerGuideprogrampromptsyoutoinsertyouroperating-systemCDandrestarttheserver.At

thispoint,theinstallationprogramfortheoperatingsystemtakescontroltocompletetheinstallation.

InstallingyouroperatingsystemwithoutusingServerGuide

UsethisinformationtoinstalltheoperatingsystemontheserverwithoutusingServerGuide.

IfyouhavealreadyconﬁguredtheserverhardwareandyouarenotusingtheServerGuideprogramto

installyouroperatingsystem,youcandownloadoperating-systeminstallationinstructionsfortheserver

fromhttp://www.lenovo.com/support.

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