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Requirements and hardware used According to the Installation and Administration Addendum found in the doc directory on the first CD of SuSE SLES 8, the requirements to use this Linux distribution are: An Itanium or Itanium 2 processor At least 256 MB of main memory A hard disk larger than 10 GB Firmware version EFI 1.0.2 or 1.1.0 (preferred) Our testing system was one pre-production x450 unit with: One Itanium 2 processor running at 900 MHz Two GB of DDR RAM EFI Version 1.10 Firmware Version 0.9.19 We also connected an RXE-100 expansion enclosure after the installation. Before starting the installation Before starting the installation, we recommend you do the following: Disconnect the RXE-100 expansion enclosure if it is connected to the system. Our testing showed that the RXE-100 may not be recognized by the kernel during installation and the installation process may hang. Once the system is installed, you can reconnect it and all your PCI devices will be recognized automatically. Disconnect the LS-120 if you have one installed. Do not start the installation procedure with an LS-120 drive unit in the spare media bay in the front of the x450. We encountered problems trying to install the preview release of SuSE SLES 8 that disappeared when we removed the unit from the bay (in our machine, the LS-120 drive was on the secondary bus of the primary IDE interface). SuSE SLES 8 supports LVM volumes during the installation, so you can install it on LVM partitions. We used only internal disks for our tests. Notice that the default file system used on SuSE is the journaling file system ReiserFS. For more information about the ReiserFS file system, go to: http://www.namesys.com/. Installation procedure The installation procedure of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 8 is like any other SuSE Linux installation, except that you work on a different architecture, so 104 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide

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xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide
Requirements and hardware used
According to the
Installation and Administration Addendum
found in the doc
directory on the first CD of SuSE SLES 8, the requirements to use this Linux
distribution are:
±
An Itanium or Itanium 2 processor
±
At least 256 MB of main memory
±
A hard disk larger than 10 GB
±
Firmware version EFI 1.0.2 or 1.1.0 (preferred)
Our testing system was one pre-production x450 unit with:
±
One Itanium 2 processor running at 900 MHz
±
Two GB of DDR RAM
±
EFI Version 1.10
±
Firmware Version 0.9.19
We also connected an RXE-100 expansion enclosure after the installation.
Before starting the installation
Before starting the installation, we recommend you do the following:
±
Disconnect the RXE-100 expansion enclosure if it is connected to the system.
Our testing showed that the RXE-100 may not be recognized by the kernel
during installation and the installation process may hang. Once the system is
installed, you can reconnect it and all your PCI devices will be recognized
automatically.
±
Disconnect the LS-120 if you have one installed.
Do not start the installation procedure with an LS-120 drive unit in the spare
media bay in the front of the x450. We encountered problems trying to install
the preview release of SuSE SLES 8 that disappeared when we removed the
unit from the bay (in our machine, the LS-120 drive was on the secondary bus
of the primary IDE interface).
SuSE SLES 8 supports LVM volumes during the installation, so you can install it
on LVM partitions. We used only internal disks for our tests. Notice that the
default file system used on SuSE is the journaling file system ReiserFS. For
more information about the ReiserFS file system, go to:
.
Installation procedure
The installation procedure of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 8 is like any
other SuSE Linux installation, except that you work on a different architecture, so