Asus P5LD-MR - Manual (Page 137)

ASUS P5LD-MR 6-1
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows ®
2000/2003 server or Red Hat ® Enterprise ver. 3.0/SUSE Linux server
operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You
can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk application in the
support CD).
To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:
1. Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.
3. Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the
support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
4. Restart the computer.
5. Press any key when prompted to boot from CD.
A) FreeDOS command prompt
B) Create LSIICH7R MegaRAID IDE Driver for Windows 32/64 bit Driver Disk
C) Create LSIICH7R MegaRAID IDE Driver for RHEL3 UP6 32/64 bit Driver Disk
D) Create LSIICH7R MegaRAID IDE Driver for RHEL4 UP2 32/64 bit Driver Disk
E) Create LSIICH7R MegaRAID IDE Driver for SLES9 SP2 32/64 bit Driver Disk
F) Create ICH7R Intel Matrix Storage for Windows 32 bit driver disk
G) Create ICH7R Intel Matrix Storage for Windows 64 bit driver disk
Please choose A To G:
The Makedisk menu appears.
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
6. Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then
select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create by typing the
number before the option.
7. Press <Enter>.
8. Follow screen instructions to create the driver disk.
6.1 RAID driver installation
After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to
install an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable
array. This part provides instructions on how to install the RAID controller
drivers during OS installation.
6.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk
You can use the original system or use another system to create the RAID
driver disk from the system/motherboard support CD or from the Internet.