Acer Altos G500 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Appendix A: ASM Pro quick installation guide
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for the other operating systems when you create the RDM hidden
partition.
Note: When you boot the system to the hidden partition, you
cannot use other utilities (e.g., FDISK.EXE) to change the hidden
partition settings.
Deleting the hidden partition
Important: You cannot recreate the RDM hidden partition once
you delete it. Before proceeding, make sure that you will not
need to create a hidden partition in the future.
Follow these steps to delete the hidden partition:
a Insert a bootable diskette into the floppy drive.
b Enter the BIOS Setup and set the Hidden Partition parameter
in the RDM BIOS to Enabled.
c After the system boots from the floppy drive, use FDISK to
delete the RDM hidden partition. Do not delete other
partitions or change or reformat the active partition.
d Exit FDISK and reboot the system.
e Enter the BIOS Setup and set the Hidden Partition parameter
in the RDM BIOS to Disabled.
3 Install an operating system.
RDM supports the following operating systems:
Novell NetWare
Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000
SCO OpenServer
SCO UnixWare
•RedHat Linux
You can install any or all of the operating systems. For the
installation instructions, refer to the documentation that came
with the OS package.
4 Install the ASM Pro Server Agent.
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