Restoring The Linux Operating System; Downloading The Latest Hp Driver Cd Contents; Installing The Operating System With The Hp Driver Cd Contents; Upgrading Device Drivers - HP xw8400 Service And Technical Reference Manual

Restoring the Linux operating system

To restore the Linux operating system, the HP Driver CD and Red Hat box set are required. Download
the latest HP Driver CD to get any new enhancements.
Linux does not support mixed drive types for a manufacturing preload. When restoring the operating
system, mixed drive types can be handled with the restoring media.

Downloading the latest HP driver CD contents

1. Download the ISO image to a local hard drive from the HP support website for the appropriate
workstation platform (such as http://www.hp.com/support/xw8400).
2. Click Download drivers and software.
3. Select the Linux operating system that matches your box set.
4. Select the latest version of the operating system from the Utility Tools section.
5. Download and unpack the operating system by entering: tar zxvf filename.tgz.
6. Copy the ISO image to CD-R bootable media. On another Linux workstation, use the cdrecord
utility. Identify the device address for the CD burner by entering: cdrecord óscanbus. The
default is usually 2, 0, 0.
Example: cdrecord -v -eject dev=2,0,0 CD0_golden.iso

Installing the operating system with the HP driver CD contents

1. Boot your workstation from the Red Hat box set Binary CD 1.
2. Insert the Linux operating system CDs from the Red Hat box set as prompted.
3. Continue following the prompts until the operating system is successfully installed.
4. Configure the X server to start on reboot.
5. Reboot your workstation.
6. Follow the prompts to set up your system with the Red Hat First Boot utility.
7. When prompted in First Boot to add additional CDs, insert the HP Driver CD into the CD-ROM tray
of your workstation.
8. Click Install next to "Additional CDs." The HP Driver CD window opens.
9. Click Press to begin install.
When the install is done, you will have two options— Reboot now... on the left side and Press to
continue, reboot later... on the right side.
10. Click Reboot now...

Upgrading device drivers

To upgrade a Linux device driver, see http://www.hp.com/go/workstationsupport.
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