First boot failed because I did not have the CD inserted in time. After a few minutes, the message came up saying that there was no operating system installed.
Error 1962: No operating system found.Press any key to repeat boot sequence.
I inserted the CD called ThinkServer EasyStartup and pressed the space bar to reboot.
Selected the following options:
Language: English
Keyboard layout: English
The next screen advised me that, if I wanted to create a RAID array in Onboard SATA RAID mode, I would have to do the following:
Exit the EasyStartup program
Set the SATA mode as RAID in the Setup Utility program
Restart the server
Press <ctrl>+I when prompted to enter the RAID configuration utility program.
I was going to set up RAID-1 but I decided against because this is a test server for my educational needs. Nearly all of the data can be thrown away.
Accepted the license agreement.
Set the date and time
I continued to the main interface.
I chose Install Operating System from the main menu. The type of O/S was Other. I then found I had to install the operating system myself.
I inserted the Oracle VM Server 3.1.1 disc 1 CD and rebooted. Tested the CD. No problems found.
US keyboard
Accepted EULA
Initialized all data on RAIDP0. Partitioning Type was selected as Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout. Accepted default layout.
Boot Loader Configuration was:
RAIDP0 Master Boot Rec
Prohibit boot froma multipath device
Oracle VM Management Interface:
eth0: 44:37:E6:A7:34:9A
IPv4 Configuration for eth0:
Manual address configuration
192.168.3.1/255.255.255.0
Miscellaneous Network Settings:
Gateway: 192.168.3.1
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.252
Secondary DNS: 10.1.1.1
Hostname is set to victoria.
Time Zone Selection:
System clock uses UTC
Australia/Sydney
Oracle VM Agent password: **********************
Root password: **********************
Installation completed OK. Rebooted server.
Oracle VM Server release 3.1.1
Hypervisor running in 64 bit mode with NO Hardware Virtualization support. ... CPU :
cpu family : 6
model : 42
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31245 @ 3.30GHz
According to /proc/cpuinfo, I have eight (8) processors.