Installing via virtual media – Acer AB460 F1 User Manual

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4. The blade has only non-partitioned/unformatted hard drives

installed and no bootable devices attached to it.

Once these conditions are met, make sure the PXE server is running.
Then turn on the blade on which you wish to boot and/or install the
OS. The BIOS in the blade will look at all bootable devices and finding
none will connect to the PXE server to begin the boot/install.

Installing via Virtual Media

You can install the OS via Media Redirection through either the Acer
Smart Blade Manager or the

Acer Smart Blade Console. With this

method, the OS is installed from an ISO image that resides on another
system/blade.

Refer to “Acer Smart Blade Console” on page 28 and “Acer Smart
Blade Manager” on page 554 in this manua
l.

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