Dell PowerEdge 6400 - Manual (Page 8)

The RCU has online instructions for each of its procedures. If you need help at any time, press <F1> to see a help screen that offers more details
about the task you are doing.
Starting the RCU
If you are running the RCU from your hard-disk drive, remove any terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs from memory before starting the
utility. These programs take up space in system memory even when they are not running, thus reducing the amount of memory available to the
RCU. See the documentation that came with these programs for instructions on removing them from memory.
If you start the utility and there is not enough memory to run it, a message is displayed. If you receive such a message, run the utility from a diskette.
Follow these steps the first time you use the RCU.
To run the program from a diskette, insert into drive A the RCU diskette that you created from the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD. Then
either turn on your computer or reboot it by pressing <Ctrl><Alt><Del>.
1. To run the program from your hard-disk drive, switch to the c:\rcu subdirectory, type sd at the operating system prompt, and press <Enter>.
To run the program from the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD, restart the system from the CD. Click Configure System and then
click Run RCU from the CD's main menu.
2. When the Welcome screen appears, read the information on the screen and press <Enter>.
The Main Menu appears as follows:
Main Menu
Learn about configuring your computer
Configure computer
Set date
Set time
Maintain resource configuration diskette
Exit from this utility
The first option in the menu is already highlighted.
3. Press <Enter> to read the online overview of the RCU.
After reading the online overview, you are ready to use the program to configure your computer for any PCI expansion cards currently
installed in your computer's expansion slots.
Main Menu
The following four sections describe each of the menu options in the Main Menu and the submenus for those options.
Learn About Configuring Your Computer
The Learn about configuring your computer option presents an overview of the configuration process. As you finish reading a screen, press
<Enter> to view the next screen. Press <F10> to return to the Main Menu.
Configure Computer
The Configure computer option takes you through the configuration process step by step. Use this option the first time you configure your system
and every time you change your hardware configuration through the RCU.
When you select Configure computer, the following menu appears on the screen:
Steps in configuring your computer
Step 1: Important Resource Configuration Information
Step 2: Add or remove boards
Step 3: View or edit details
Step 4: Examine switches or print report
Step 5: Save and exit
Step 1: Important Resource Configuration Information
The Step 1: Important Resource Configuration Information option uses seven information screens to explain the configuration process. After
reading the first screen, press <Enter> to see the next one. When you have finished reading all seven screens, press <Esc> to return to the Steps
in configuring your computer menu.
To review the information screens at any time while you are in the RCU, press <F1> and select Resource Configuration from the Help menu.