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Abstract

The HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade introduces the advantages of HP Integrity servers to the HP BladeSystem c-Class series technology. This white paper describes how to install the supported Linux distributions on HP Integrity BL860c Server Blades. The supported Linux distributions are:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 (RHEL4U4)

  • Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10)

Both Linux distributions support installations using physical media or a network repository. You can make the physical media or an image of the physical media available using any of the following:

  • a USB DVD (the HP MultiBay 9.5mm DVD+/-RW Drive [PA851A] with the USB External MultiBay Cradle [PA509A]),

  • a hard disk partition,

  • or virtual media using the Integrated Lights-Out 2 Management Processor (iLO 2 MP).

Network installations can use the HTTP, NFS, or FTP protocols from an installation repository on an operational server. The following sections describe the following topics:



  		 


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