DATOptic ARC-1680 Series - Manual (Page 97)

DRIVER INSTALLATION
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system installations. Determine the correct kernel version and
identify which diskette images contain drivers for that kernel. If the
driver file ends in .img, create the appropriate driver diskette using
“dd” utility. The following steps are required to create the driver
diskettes:
1. The computer system BIOS must be set to boot-up from the
CD-ROM.
2. Insert the SATA controller driver CD disc into the CD-ROM
drive.
3. The system will boot-up from CD-ROM Drive.
Note:
It will take about 5 minutes to boot up the Knoppix
GNU/Linux, Live Linux CD.
4. To create the driver diskette, for example: making the Cen-
tOS 5 driver diskette.
4a. Execute xterm by clicking the XTerm icon on left-bottom
toolbar.
4b. Change the path to the specific driver image.
cd /cdrom/PACKAGES/Linux/DRIVER/CentOS_5
4c. Dump the driver image into floppy diskette using "dd" util
-ity, Command format: dd if=<image file> of=
<destination>
dd if=driver.img of=/dev/fd0
4d. When the operation is complete, the following messages are
shown.
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 97.5903 seconds, 15.1
kB/s
The driver diskette is made now. Proceed to the following
instruction for installation procedures.