Acer Altos R920 Installation & Configuration Manual

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7 Altos R920Installation Configuration GuideBelow is Altos R920 OS certification matrix:Operating System Service Pack Status NoteWindows Server 2008 EnterpriseEdition n/a Certified1, 2,3Windows Server 2008 Enterprisex64 Edition n/a Certified1, 2,3Windows Server 2003 R2Enterprise Edition SP2 CertifiedWindows Server 2003 R2Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 CertifiedRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 N/A CertifiedRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0EM64T N/A CertifiedSuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 CertifiedSuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10EM64T SP1 CertifiedNOTE1. Altos R920 BIOS 23 (or later), BMC 17 (or later) andFRUSDR 14 (or later) are required to support Windows Server2008.NOTE2. This Windows Server 2008 certification also applies toStandard Edition and Web Server 2008.NOTE3. EasyBUILD 8.0 build 200 (or later) can support WindowsServer 2008.The drivers required for the OS installation can be found onthe EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100. We suggest that you use thedrivers contained in the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100, as thesedrivers are tested and qualified by Acer.There are two ways you can get the drivers. You can eithermake diskettes from Resource CD, or put the Resource CD in theCD-ROM drive and search the driver directly from the ResourceCD.NOTE. In this section, we assume the OS is installed on theHDD connected to the integrated SAS hardware RAID.NOTE. You need an USB floppy for applying driver during OSinstallation if there is no built-in driver for diskcontroller driver in the OS.OS INSTALLATION TIPS