GETTING STARTED!
Follow these steps to become familiar with your server documentation and to complete your installation successfully.
1
Checking the Accessory Box
The accessory box contains:
Keys for the LOCKED front door**
EXPRESSBUILDER bootable CD-ROM containing the setup utility and system documentation
Customer Notices,* Alerts,* Software Notes,** and System
Release Notes
Network Operating System (NOS) software**
System Diskettes*
Application Software**
Power cord(s), keyboard, and mouse
ServerCare Guide containing the service and warranty information.
*If required for your server.
**On certain models.
3
Your
o Follow the Server Setting Up information in your User’s Guide to unpack and install your server. o If your server includes Network Operating System software preloaded at the factory, it will boot-up to the operating system license agreement screen. Follow the screen prompts and Software Notes to complete loading of your operating system. Servers that include Network
Operating System software preloaded at the factory, include a 50MB maintenance partition.
If your system does not include Network Operating System software, create a maintenance partition using EXPRESSBUILDER, before loading the operating system. o Options ordered with your server are already installed. If you have additional adapter boards and devices for your server, install them before putting the server in the location you have selected. Follow the procedures in the Upgrades Your Server, Chapter 9 of the system
User’s Guide, plus installation inserts and vendor documents that came with the option.
4
Running the E XPRESS B UILDER CD-ROM
o Run the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM to:
Ensure correct hardware setup if you installed additional adapter boards or devices in Step 3.
Create driver diskettes needed during the installation of your
Network Operating System (NOS), if your NOS was not factory-installed. Note: Always create a maintenance partition using EXPRESSBUILDER, before loading the operating system.
Print “Installing Windows Server 2003” located in Appendix B of your user’s guide. This guide contains supplemental instructions needed during the installation of your operating system. o To run the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM, insert the CD-ROM into the
CD-ROM device, reboot the system and follow the screen prompts.
Note: If you received system diskettes with your server, these diskettes provide the latest available system utilities information.
Use these diskettes instead of running the system utilities from the
EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM.
2
Your System Documentation
o You may view and print the User’s Guide and EXPRESSBUILDER
User’s Guide from the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM. To do this, insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM device on a system running a
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System with Internet Explorer 4.01 or later installed. Do not boot from the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM. Use
Adobe® Acrobat® PDF viewer to view and print the documents. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer, select “Install Adobe Acrobat
Reader” on the CD-ROM to install the reader. o Read the System Release Notes. The System Release Notes provide the latest available system information. o Read the Software Notes*. The Software Notes provide information on configuring and running software preloaded on your system. o Read “Installing Windows Server 2003” in Appendix D of your User’s
Guide, before installing your operating system.
*On certain models.
o If your server includes a RAID controller and a preloaded Network
Operating System (NOS), please follow the procedures in Chapter 5 of the system User’s Guide to set your RAID configuration. If your system does not include a preloaded Network Operating System, the
RAID array is configured as RAID 7. Changing the RAID level on servers that include a NOS, will require reloading the NOS. Refer to information in the RAID controller documentation.
5
Installing Application Software
o Locate application software media and accompanying installation procedures. Install application software following procedures in the applicable installation guide. o If your Network Administrator advises, locate the EXPRESSBUILDER
CD-ROM and install your server management software.
Your server installation is now complete.
Need More Help?
Please call the Technical Support number in your
ServerCare Guide.
FCC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY
TRADE NAME: TYPE:
120Rf-2 EXP149
FCC STATEMENT (Class A Equipment):
The equipment listed in the above table has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by NEC Solutions (America), Inc. could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.
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