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Chapter 4. Installation 111
4.2 Device drivers
Specific device drivers are available for the x440 that may not be included with
the base operating system.
Drivers that you should obtain separately from the operating system include:
Broadcom Ethernet controller
Active PCI-X controller
Remote Supervisor Adapter management processor
S3 Savage4 LT video controllers
ServeRAID
The required drivers as well as the latest versions of BIOS, service processor
firmware, and diagnostics firmware are available from:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4JTS2T.html
If you are implementing Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) check the Microsoft
Cluster Service Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) to confirm that hardware,
drivers and firmware have been Microsoft Certified. The HCL can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp
4.3 Operating system installation
This topic will discuss the installation of the following operating systems on the
x440 hardware platform:
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
Red Hat Linux
Novell NetWare
In the following discussions we assume that disk subsystems, such as RAID
arrays, for both operating system installations and data storage have been
configured.
Important: The procedures and menu items described above may change as
BIOS levels are revised.