Owner's Manual

Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
• A minimum of 14.1 GB disk space is required to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• If you use the Download RPMs from Network feature, the RPMs are downloaded to the partition called
/home. The recommended size for this partition is 3 GB plus the size of the RPMs you want to update.
All downloaded RPMs are installed during the post-install phase of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installer.
• Entering a double quote character (") in the Root Password field of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installation results in denial of access to the root log in.
• SBUU limits the maximum block device size on a Linux system to 8 TB.
• A network download of RPMs requires that the target system has a DHCP IP address and is connected
to a network.
• In SBUU, after selecting languages such as Chinese, using the Select Language option for installing a
Red Hat Linux operation system, you must change the run level using init 5 command instead of startx
for applying the selected language.
Notes on Preparing Linux OS Installation Media
• SBUU performs a media check on the Linux operating system media that is provided during installation.
This is to ensure that you do not copy damaged media that may result in the failure of the operating
system installation.
This is a default action performed by SBUU and you cannot disable it.
• It is recommended that you use the optical media obtained from the operating system vendor to install
Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux operating systems using SBUU. If it is necessary to burn the
media using optical drive burning software, ensure that you:
- Obtain the ISO image file of the media from known sources.
- Burn the media at slower speeds.
- Use the "Disk at Once" or a similar option.
- Close the session.
Notes for VMware ESX
• For details on the hardware support and ESX build number, see www.dell.com/vmware at
support.dell.com.
Also, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Compatibility Guide and the Dell Systems
Software Support Matrix.
• On a system with inbuilt SD card slot, if ESXi Installer and recovery OS is supported, it is displayed in the
operating system list for all controllers, independent of whether the SD card is enabled or disabled in
the BIOS.