HP Z600 - Workstation - 6 GB RAM User Manual page 6

4 Setting up the operating system ................................................................................................................. 28
Setting up the Microsoft operating system ......................................................................................... 29
Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux .................................................................................................. 30
Setting up Novell SLED ...................................................................................................................... 31
Updating the workstation .................................................................................................................... 31
5 Restoring the operating system .................................................................................................................. 34
Restore methods ................................................................................................................................ 34
Ordering backup software .................................................................................................................. 35
Restoring Windows 7 or Windows Vista ............................................................................................. 35
Restoring Windows XP Professional .................................................................................................. 36
Restoring Novell SLED ....................................................................................................................... 38
6 Preparing for component installation ......................................................................................................... 40
Disassembly and installation preparation ........................................................................................... 40
Preparing the workstation for component installation ......................................................................... 40
7 Installing memory ......................................................................................................................................... 44
Supported memory configurations ..................................................................................................... 44
Installing a DIMM ................................................................................................................................ 45
Installing the airflow guide (Z400 only) ............................................................................................... 47
8 Installing PCI/PCIe devices .......................................................................................................................... 50
Expansion card slot identification ....................................................................................................... 50
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Installing or upgrading device drivers ................................................................................ 29
Transferring files and settings to your Windows workstation ............................................. 29
Installing with the HP driver CD ......................................................................................... 30
Installing and customizing Red Hat-enabled workstations ................................................ 31
Verifying hardware compatibility ....................................................................... 31
Updating the workstation after first boot ............................................................................ 31
Upgrading the BIOS ........................................................................................................... 31
Determining current BIOS ................................................................................. 32
Upgrading BIOS ................................................................................................ 33
Upgrading device drivers ................................................................................................... 33
Ordering the RestorePlus! media ...................................................................................... 35
Restoring the operating system ......................................................................................... 35
Creating RestorePlus! media ............................................................................................. 36
Creating HP Backup and Recovery (HPBR) media ........................................................... 37
Restoring the operating system ......................................................................................... 38
Using RestorePlus! ........................................................................................... 38
Using HPBR ...................................................................................................... 38
Using the recovery partition .............................................................................. 38
Creating restore media ...................................................................................................... 38
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