Lenovo ThinkServer RD440 - Features of the Thinkserver Easystartup Program; Starting the Thinkserver Easystartup Program

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IfyoudonothaveaThinkServerEasyStartupDVD,youalsocandownloadanISOimagefromtheLenovo

SupportWebsiteandmakeadiscbyyourself.

TodownloadtheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramimageandburnitintoadisc,dothefollowing:

1.Gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/driversandfollowtheinstructionsontheWebpagetolocatethe

ThinkServerEasyStartupprogram.

2.DownloadtheISOimagefortheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramandthereadmeﬁle.Thereadmeﬁle

containsimportantinformationabouttheThinkServerEasyStartupprogram.

3.Printthereadmeﬁleandreaditcarefully.

4.UseanopticaldriveandanyDVDburningsoftwaretocreateabootablediscwiththeISOimage.

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

page70.

2.Waitfortheprogramtoload.Then,youwillbepromptedforthefollowingselections:

•Thelanguageinwhichyouwanttoviewtheprogram

•Thelanguageofthekeyboardlayoutyouwillbeusingwiththeprogram

Note:ThesupportedlanguagesandkeyboardlayoutsfortheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramare

Dutch,English,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Russian,Spanish,andTurkish.YourThinkServer

EasyStartupDVDmightbeEnglishonly.Inthiscase,thekeyboardlayoutshouldbeEnglish.

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