Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition 64-Bit Installation Instructions and Important Information w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l .
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Contents 32-Bit Application Compatibility Using the Windows Server 2003 CD to Perform a Clean Installation of the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 . . . . . 1-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Performing a Clean Installation of Windows Server 2003 With an Existing Windows Operating System Important Information . Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 1-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10 . . . .
NOTE: The Windows Server 2003 operating system can only be installed on a PowerEdge system with one or more 64-bit Intel Itanium processors.
w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m Using the Windows Server 2003 CD to Perform a Clean Installation of the Operating System NOTICE: See the first bulleted item under "SCSI and RAID Controllers" in "Important Information." You must install the PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 3/QC with firmware version 1.61 or later before installing Windows Server 2003, or before adding a PERC 3/QC controller card to an existing Windows Server 2003 installation.
Exit the SCSI Disk Utility and restart the system by pressing several times. The EFI Boot Manager appears. e • Go to step 4. To configure the PERC 3/QC or PERC 4/DC controller: a When prompted during POST, press . b Select Configure→ New Configuration→ Yes. c Configure your RAID disks in the appropriate RAID array. The configuration might vary depending on the installed physical disks, the required RAID level, and the number of desired virtual disks.
w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m 5 Press to continue. The Setup Could Not Locate an Existing System Partition screen appears. 6 Press . The setup program creates and automatically formats a system partition. The partition is an EFI system partition formatted with a file allocation table (FAT) file system. The operating system stores system files in this partition.
10 Enter the required information and click Next in each window to continue. 11 Select your licensing mode by selecting either Per Server (the default) or Per Seat, and click Next. If you select Per server, you must enter the number of Windows Server 2003 licenses you have purchased for your systems. If you select Per seat, the license manager verifies that each individual system has a valid license at log in.
w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m 17 In the User name and Password fields, enter your administrator user name and password. The Configure Your Server Wizard window appears and the Configuration Wizard starts. 18 Click Next if you want to continue configuring your system. Specify as much additional configuration as required for this particular system. 19 Remove the Windows Server 2003 CD from the CD drive.
In the Main Menu, scroll to Delete Boot Option(s), and press . The Delete Boot Option(s) menu appears. 4 Scroll to the Windows operating system that is currently installed on your system, and press . The following message appears at the bottom of the screen: Delete selected Boot Option [Y-Yes N-No]: 5 Press to continue. The Windows operating system is deleted from the Delete Boot Option(s) menu. 6 Scroll to Save the change and press . 7 Press twice.
w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m Important Information Some sections below reference a yellow "bang" . This icon is displayed in Device Manager to indicate a specific problem with a system device. Operating System • Unable to upgrade the operating system. Microsoft does not support upgrades from Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition version 1.0 or Limited Edition Refresh version 1.1 to Windows Server 2003. A clean installation is required to run Windows Server 2003.
• All network traffic occurs on one processor. When your system experiences heavy network utilization on Gigabit NICs, the user might also see all network traffic on one processor in the Task Manager. This behavior is expected. The operating system is designed to perform in this manner. • The operating system does not autodetect other clients or systems in the workgroup or domain.
w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m command in Windows Server 2003 no longer displays this information. To view the NIC connection order, click the Start button and select Settings→ Network Connections→ Advanced→ Advanced Settings→ Connections. SCSI and RAID Controllers • The operating system does not shut down after you install a PERC 3/QC card (PowerEdge 7150 systems only).
Other Issues • Error appears during POST. Before you reinstall the operating system, you might see the following error during POST before the EFI Boot Manager starts: Loading Device Drivers Load of Auxiliary Floating Point Driver failed: Unsupported Pause - press any key to continue To avoid this issue, perform the following steps: a When the error appears, press any key. The EFI Boot Manager menu displays. b Scroll down to EFI-Shell and press .
w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m • Yellow warning message in the Event Viewer System Log. After you install Windows Server 2003, the System Log in the Event Viewer displays the following warning message: Source ------ -----WMIxWDM Event 98 To avoid this issue, clear the entry in the Event Viewer System Log. Dell is currently working with Microsoft to correct this problem. • Device Manager may not display USB devices status correctly.
If at any time you do not understand a procedure described in this guide, or if your system does not perform as expected, Dell provides a number of tools to help you. For more information about these help tools, see "Getting Help" in your PowerEdge Installation and Troubleshooting Guide. Dell Enterprise Training and Certification is available now; see www.dell.com/training for more information. This service may not be offered in all locations.
1-14 Installation Instr uctions w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l .
