Lenovo ThinkServer RD430 - Handling static-sensitive devices

FeaturesoftheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram
ThistopicliststhefeaturesoftheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram.
TheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramhasthefollowingfeatures:
•Containedinaself-starting(bootable)DVD
•Easy-to-use,language-selectableinterface
•Integratedhelpsystemanduserguide
•Automatichardwaredetection
•ContainstheRAIDconfigurationutility
•Providesdevicedriversbasedontheservermodelanddetecteddevices
•DownloadsdevicedriversfromtheThinkServerEasyStartupDVDaccordingtotheoperatingsystem
oradd-ondevice
•Selectablepartitionsizeandfilesystemtype
•Supportformultipleoperatingsystems
•Abilitytoinstalltheoperatingsystemanddevicedriversinanunattendedmodetosavetime
•AbilitytocreateareuseableresponsefilethatcanbeusedwithsimilarlyconfiguredLenovoserversto
makefutureinstallationsevenfaster
StartingtheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram
ThistopicprovidesinstructionsonhowtostarttheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram.Afteryoustartthe
programandenterthemaininterface,clickUserGuidefordetailedinformationabouthowtousethis
programtohelpyouconfiguretheserverandinstallanoperatingsystem.
TostarttheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram,dothefollowing:
1.InserttheThinkServerEasyStartupDVDintoanopticaldrive,settheopticaldriveasthefirststartup
device,andstartyourserverfromtheDVDintheopticaldrive.See“Selectingastartupdevice”on
page64
.
2.Waitfortheprogramtoload.Then,youwillbepromptedforthefollowingselections:
•Thelanguageinwhichyouwanttoviewtheprogram
•Thelanguageofthekeyboardlayoutyouwillbeusingwiththeprogram
Note:ThesupportedlanguagesandkeyboardlayoutsfortheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramare
Dutch,English,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Russian,Spanish,andTurkish.YourThinkServer
EasyStartupDVDmightbeEnglishonly.Inthiscase,thekeyboardlayoutshouldbeEnglish.
3.Afterselectingthelanguageandkeyboardlayout,clickOK.Then,youwillseeoneormorereminders
ormessagesaboutconfiguringstoragedevices.ClickNextuntilyouarepresentedwiththeLenovo
LicenseAgreement.ReadtheLenovoLicenseAgreementcarefully.Inordertocontinue,youmust
acceptthetermsbyclickingAgree.Then,theDateandtimewindowopens.
4.SetthecurrentdateandtimeandclickOK.TheStartoptionwindowopens.
5.TheStartoptionwindowprovidesthefollowingselections:
•Continuetothemaininterface.
•Installtheoperatingsystemusingapre-existingresponsefile.
•ConfigureRAIDusingapre-existingresponsefile.
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