Making Operating System Installation Media Image Available for Installation

  1. Using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client software (for example, Remote Desktop Connection on a Windows computer), access and log on to the Fabric Management Platform.

  2. Copy your operating system installation media image (.iso or .img) to the Fabric Management Platform.

  3. From the Fabric Management Platform, use Fabric Manager to launch a console for the desired platform. (See Launching the Platform Management Card (PMC) Virtual Console for more information.)

    If you receive a certificate warning message, click Continue. A platform management console window appears.

  4. Log on to the platform management console using the credentials your Unisys service representative created for you in step 1 of Overview of Installing a Customer-Supplied OS on a Nonpartitionable Enterprise Partition Platform.

  5. On the Attached Media tab, verify that Attach Mode is set to Auto-Attach.

  6. On the Virtual Console page, click Launch Virtual Console.

    A partition image console window appears.

  7. From the partition image console, click the Virtual Media menu, and then click Connect Virtual Media.

  8. Click the Virtual Media menu again, and then select Map CD/DVD.

    The Virtual Media – Map CD/DVD dialog box appears.

  9. Click Browse, navigate to the operating system installation media image you previously copied to the Fabric Management Platform, select the image, and then click Open.

    The name of the image appears in the Drive/Image File field of the Virtual Media – Map CD/DVD dialog box.

  10. Click Map Device.

  11. From the partition image console, click the Next Boot menu, and then click Virtual CD/DVD/ISO.

    The Device Selected dialog box appears.

  12. Read the contents of the Device Selected dialog box, and then click OK.

Proceed to the installation procedure for your particular operating system to install and configure it.