- Four Processor @ Eight-Core Intel Xeon
- 112 GB Total RAM
- Four Hardisk @ 146 GB
- Integrated RAID Controller
- OpenManage Dell Management Console
More on: http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/poweredge-r910/pd.aspx?refid=poweredge-r910&cs=555&s=biz
Although Centos 5.5 is not officially supported, i encourage myself to install it because it's brother, RHEL 5.5, is supported. Well i hope i'm lucky.
These are the steps:
- First thing i do is configure the BIOS.
- At first boot screen press F10 for Sistem Services. With this, you can find detailed information about the system, and there also menu for deploying OS, and several more.
- Entering OS deployment menu, i found several OS lists that supported by this system.
- I choose RHEL 5.5, the system shows warning because the DVD is not match. I bypass this, and .. ups, it hangs the system.
- Then i rebooted and repeat steps 1-3, and choose another OS. It then rebooted the machine for manual installation.
- I skip the first boot menu, and after responding F1 the installation process begins.
- Like ussual Centos installation, firstly it shows Centos installation option. I just enter the default one.
- On the partioning phase, i choose custom layout.
- Surprisingly the four-hardisk are joined on sda devices with its cummulative size 146 x 4 = 600 GB. I think this caused by RAID5, this machine's default setting. And there's 2G partition on vfat, i guess this is used by Dell System Services. I let it be that way for the current partition setting, and customize the rest 435 GB free space.
- I then created new /boot partition with 300 MB size and set to primary partition.
- Then i created LVM partition for the rest.
- I configure LVM partition with these setting: / 50 G; /home 200 G; /var 160 G; swap 5 G
- The format and install steps takes about 1 hour. Quite fast i assume.
- After rebooting with the fresh-installed Centos 5.5, i then try to install Dell OpenManage.
- to be continued..
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