When Windows XP Professional Setup displays all the hard disk storage that is available on the computer, select one of the following options to choose or create a drive partition in which to install Windows XP Professional:

When the license agreement is displayed, read the license agreement and press F8 to agree.

Press Enter again to indicate that this is a new installation and not a repair.

When you are prompted to install Windows XP Professional, press Enter.

Windows XP Professional Setup loads the device driver and continues the installation of the operating system.

When the names of the device drivers are displayed, select LSI MPT Fusion SAS driver and select Next.

The Windows XP Professional Setup program checks the diskette for a device driver.

Insert the device driver diskette into the diskette drive.

When prompted, press S to specify an add-in device driver.

When the message prompt Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration is displayed, press F6.

Follow the instructions in the device driver readme file to create a device driver diskette.

Go to Software and device drivers - IBM IntelliStation and follow the menus for the Type 9229 to download the LSI SAS device driver.

For a computer with a SATA drive, skip to step 4.įor a computer with a LSI SAS controller and a SAS drive, connect an external USB diskette drive, and complete the following steps:.

Setup copies the files from the setup CD. When you are prompted with the message Press any key to boot from cd, press any key.

Turn on the computer and insert the Windows XP Professional Setup CD into the CD or DVD drive.

To install Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, complete the following steps: The SATA device driver is included in Windows XP Professional Edition. You do not have to install a SATA device driver. If you are installing the operating system on a computer that has a SATA drive installed, skip step 2. If you are installing Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition on a computer that has a SAS drive installed, you must connect an external USB diskette drive and download and install the SAS device driver.

3.2 Instructions for manual software installation

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