Downloading The Latest Hp Driver Cd Contents; Reinstalling The Factory Linux Image With The Hp Driver Cd; Upgrading Device Drivers; Linux-Enabled Workstations - HP xw4600 Service And Technical Reference Manual

Downloading the latest HP driver CD contents

To download the latest HP Driver CD:
1. Go to http://www.hp.com
2. Locate your workstation and operating system.
3. Select your driver CD and then follow the directions under the Release Notes.

Reinstalling the factory Linux image with the HP driver CD

1. Boot your workstation from the Red Hat box set, Binary CD 1.
2. When prompted, insert the Linux operating system restore media CDs.
3. Continue following the installation prompts until the operating system is successfully installed.
4. Configure the X server to start on reboot.
5. Reboot your workstation.
6. Follow the onscreen prompts to set up your system with the Red Hat First Boot utility.
7. When prompted by First Boot to add additional CDs, insert the HP Driver CD into the optical drive
of your workstation.
8. Select Install next to Additional CDs. The HP Driver CD window opens.
9. To begin the installation, select Press to continue.
When installation is complete, you are given two options— Reboot now... (on the left side), and
Press to continue, reboot later... (on the right side).
10. Select Reboot now...

Upgrading device drivers

To upgrade a Linux device driver, see http://www.hp.com/support/workstation_swdrivers.

Linux-enabled workstations

Linux-enabled workstations do not have Linux preinstalled, nor do they include installation media for a
Linux distribution. To install Linux, you must have the installation binary set for a Linux distribution (CD
or DVD media, or a version on your network), and the HP Installer Kit for Linux. The HP Installer kit
includes the HP CDs necessary to complete the installation of all versions of the distribution box set that
are supported by HP workstation hardware. See the Linux hardware support matrix at
http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix
your workstation.
NOTE: If you want to use the drivers available in the HP Installer kit with Linux distributions other than
RHEL, you must manually extract the drivers from the HP Driver CD and install them. HP does not test
the installation of these drivers on other Linux distributions, nor does HP support this type of operation.
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and select Software and Drive Downloads.
to determine which versions of are supported on
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