Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Before installing an
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 3. Installing an operating
system in legacy mode . . . . . . . . . 5
Before installing an operating system in legacy
mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing a Microsoft Windows 7 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing a Microsoft Windows 8 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installing a Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
(x64) operating system with Service Pack 1 . . . . . 7
Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2012
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2016
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012 Standard operating system . . . . . . . . 14
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012 R2 Standard operating system. . . . . . . 15
Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2011 Essentials . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2011 Standard operating system . . . . . 17
Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2011 Premium Add-on operating system . . 18
Installing the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.5
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
(x64) operating system with Service Pack 3 . . . . 35
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
operating system with Service Pack 4 . . . . . . 36
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.3
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing the VMware ESXi hypervisor . . . . . . 43
Chapter 4. Installing an operating
system in UEFI mode . . . . . . . . . 45
Before installing an operating system in UEFI
mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing a Microsoft Windows 7 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing a Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows 8.1
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing a Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
(x64) operating system with Service Pack 1 . . . . 47
Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2012
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installing a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2016
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Essentials operating system . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012 Standard operating system . . . . . . . . 48
Installing the Microsoft Windows Storage Server
2012 R2 Standard operating system. . . . . . . 48
Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server 2011 Essentials . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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