HP Proliant DL380 G7 Installation questions.

Hi guys.
The disks of HP NT server in my office has been physically damaged.
So I need to re - install a ms windows 2008 r2.
And I am going to take this opportunity to update everthing.
But unfortunately, This is my first time to install the ms nt o/s.
So please advice.
1. I would like to update the firmware.
I have already downloaded it from HP.
But I don't know when should I update it (before I installed the O/S? or after the O/S installation?)
2. I would like to configure RAID 5.
Should I configure it in CMOS or using smart start?
3. I would like to know what exactly purpose of Smart start and I should know.
Thank you in advance.

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Sidebar:
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problem 1 is that it's looking for ../../s0.. Which I
managed to
fake out by creating the dir in the same mount
point.
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must
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Enter default directory for modules [platform/i86pc/kernel /kernel /usr/kernel]:
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SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137138-09 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
features: 14dffdf<cpuid,mwait,cx16,sse3,asysc,htt,sse2,sse,sep,pat,cx8,pae,mca,mmx,cmov,pge,mtrr,msr,tsc,lgpg>
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