IBM Flex System p260 and p460 Planning and Implementation Guide

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Operating system installation

In this chapter, we describe how to update firmware and install various operating systems on the compute node.

We cover the following topics in this chapter:

•Firmware updates

•Methods to install operating systems

•Installation procedures

•Installing AIX

•Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

•Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

•Installing IBM i

8.1 Firmware updates

IBM periodically makes firmware updates available for the compute node, the management module, or expansion cards in the compute node. In a compute ...

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