Installing the rescue and recovery program, Administrative installation – Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 15 User Manual

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– USB Mass Storage specification for boot-ability

Video requirements

– Video compatibility: VGA-compatible video that supports a resolution of 800 x 600 and 24-bit color
– Video memory:

– On non-shared video memory systems: a minimum of 4 MB of video RAM
– On shared video memory systems: a minimum of 4 MB and maximum of 8 MB can be allocated for

video memory.

Application compatibilitySome applications that have complex filter driver environments, such as

antivirus software, might not be compatible with the Rescue and Recovery program. For information about
compatibility issues, refer to the readme file and various utilities that accompany the Rescue and Recovery
program. To obtain the readme file, go to the Lenovo Web site at: http://www.lenovo.com/thinkvantage

Network adapters requirementsThe Rescue and Recovery environment only supports wired PCI-based,

Ethernet network adapters. Network device drivers included in the Rescue and Recovery environment
are the same drivers that are pre-populated on the Windows XP Professional operating system and
independent of the Windows XP operating system. For supported Lenovo computers, required drivers are
included with the Rescue and Recovery program.

If a network device driver in your OEM computer is not supported, refer to the device documentation for
instructions to add support for system-specific network drivers. Request the drivers from your OEM.

Installing the Rescue and Recovery program

The Rescue and Recovery installation package was developed with InstallShield 10.5 Premier as a Basic
MSI project. InstallShield Premier 10.5 uses the Windows Installer to install applications, which gives
administrators many capabilities to customize installations, such as setting property values from the
command line. This section describes ways to use and run the Rescue and Recovery installation package.
For a better understanding, read the entire section before you begin to install the package.

Note: When installing the package, refer to the readme file on the Lenovo Web site at:
http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2QAK.The readme file contains
the latest information about program versions, supported systems, system requirements, and other
considerations to help you with the installation process.

Administrative installation

The Windows Installer can perform an administrative installation of an application or a product to a network
for use by a workgroup or for customization. For the Rescue and Recovery installation package, an
administrative installation unpacks the installation source files to a specified location.

You can obtain the installation package from the following Web site: http://www.lenovo.com/support

Attended installation

To perform an administrative installation, run the installation package from the command line using the /a
parameter:

setup.exe /a

An administrative installation presents a wizard that prompts the administrative user to specify the location
for unpacking the setup files. The default extract location is C:\. You can choose a new location that may
include the drive other than C:\, for example other local drive or mapped network drive. You can also
create a new directory during this step.

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