Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Setup Guide [en, ar, bg, cs, da, de, el, es, es, fi, fr, he, hr, hu, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, pt, ro, ru, sh, sk, sl, sr, sv, th, tr, uk, zc, zh]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Setup Guide
For ThinkStation P330
Official Support of Red Hat 7.5 and later
Section 1 – BIOS Setup and Pre-Installation Steps
The first step before installing Linux is to make sure BIOS is setup correctly
• For UEFI/GPT installations (recommended):
o Boot into BIOS by pressing the F1 function key at the “Lenovo” splash screen
o Tab over to the Exit menu tab, and set OS Optimized Defaults to Enabled
o Select Yes at the confirmation screen indicated below
o Tab over to the Security menu tab, select Secure Boot, and set the option to
“Disabled”
o Select F10 to “Save and Exit” BIOS
o Insert the RHEL 7 installation media (either through USB or CD/DVD)
o Power on the system and press the F12 function key whenever the following
Lenovo splash screen appears
o Select the Linux bootable installation media UEFI option from the F12 boot menu
• For Legacy/MBR installations (not recommended):
o Boot into BIOS by pressing the F1 function key at the “Lenovo” splash screen
o Tab over to the Exit menu tab, and set OS Optimized Defaults to “Disabled”
o Select Yes at the confirmation screen indicated below
o Select F10 to “Save and Exit” BIOS
o Insert the RHEL 7 installation media (either through USB or CD/DVD)
o Power on the system and press the F12 function key whenever the following
Lenovo splash screen appears
o Select the Linux bootable installation media Legacy option from the F12 boot
menu
Section 2 – Installing RHEL 7
Please refer to the following instructions and screenshots on how to install RHEL 7 on the
ThinkStation P330 workstations
• Highlight the Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 from the installer menu and press “e”
• Add nomodeset to the end of the Linux boot image line and press Ctrl-X
• Red Hat boot screen
• Intel Coffee-Lake CPU may throw the following warning message, and is safe to ignore
• Select the language to use during the installation process
• At the “Installation Summary” screen, modify the default settings for Date & Time,
Keyboard, and Language Support by selecting each one
o Default settings were used throughout this document
• Select Software Selection option from the “Installation Summary” screen
• Select a Base Environment at the left and the additional Add-on packages at the right
and select “Done” in the upper left corner of the screen
o Development and Creative Workstation was used throughout this document
• Select Installation Destination option from the “Installation Summary” screen
• Select the device on which to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Done in the upper
left corner of the screen
• Select Begin Installation in the bottom right corner of the screen
• Select Root Password
• Enter a password for the root user and select Done in the upper left corner of the screen
o Note- You might have to hit the Done button twice depending upon your
password
• Select User Creation
• Enter a Username and Password and select Done in the upper left corner of the screen
• Let the system finish the installation
• Once the installation completes, remove the installation media and select Reboot in the
bottom right corner of the screen
• Once the system reboots, select License Information from the initial setup screen
• Check the box that says “I accept the license agreement” and select Done in the upper
left corner of the screen
• Select Finish Configuration
• Select the user created above
• Enter the password created above and select “Sign In”
• Red Hat Enterprise 7 desktop screen
Section 3 – Installing the Nvidia Graphics Driver
In order to get optimal performance out of the Nvidia GPU, it’s a good practice to install the Nvidia
graphics driver
To install the latest Nvidia graphics driver, follow the steps below
• Step 1:
o Download the Nvidia graphics driver from the mentioned link-
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-in
o Fill in details like Product Type, Product Series, Product, Operating System, and
Language depending on the graphic card in use and download the driver
• Step 2:
o Blacklist the Linux Nouveau driver
▪ Open a terminal window and log in as root: sudo su
▪ Enter /etc/modprobe.d directory and create a file named blacklist.conf
▪ Add the line blacklist nouveau in blacklist.conf file, then save and exit
▪ Run the command: dracut --force to update the initramfs file
• Step 3:
o In the terminal window, type init 3 to stop X-windows
• Step 4:
o Browse to the directory location to where the Nvidia driver installer is located
• Step 5:
o Run the Nvidia installer
• Step 6:
o Accept the Nvidia driver license
• Step 7:
o Select Yes to Install 32-bit compatibility libraries
• Step 8:
o Select Yes to update the X-configuration file
• Step 9:
o Driver installation complete
• Step 10:
o Verify the Nvidia driver is loaded by running nvidia-smi
• Step 11:
o Reboot the system
Section 4 – Installing the Network Wireless Driver
The wireless network device offered for the P330 is native to RHEL 7.5; therefore, you will not
need to install any additional drivers separately
Section 5 – Installing the Network LAN Driver
The network LAN device is native to RHEL 7.5; therefore, you will not need to install any additional
drivers separately
OPTIONAL: Configuring “yum” to use CentOS Repositories
For non-registered subscriptions of Red Hat, you may be able to use the CentOS yum package
server. In order to do so, follow the instructions below.
1. Open a terminal window and login as root.
2. Add the following centos repository.
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo
[centos]
Name=CentOS $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/7/os/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
3. Run: yum update
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