Acer PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers 08P4100 User Manual

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Solaris

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computer’s disk drive. Also, insert the Solaris Installation
CD-ROM. If you have a network installation, verify with your system
administrator that the Solaris Network Installation image is available
on your network.

2. Turn on your computer.

3. When the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant screen is displayed,

choose the F4 option (on Solaris 7, this is labeled as, F4_Add Driver).

You will see the Bus Enumerating screen with the following message:

Determining buses...is displayed.

4. Follow the directions on the next screen, the Install Supplemental

Drivers screen.

5. Now, remove the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette from

the disk drive, then insert the MDAC Supplemental Diskette.

6. Press <F2> to continue. (F2 means “Continue”)

The Select Solaris System Version screen is displayed. Press <Enter>
to choose the Solaris operating system. It will show up as:

[ ] Solaris OS 2.7

7. Select the appropriate Solaris Operating System and press <F2>.

Two screens will be displayed.

• The Loading Supplemental Driver Software screen is displayed,

along with a progress bar that shows the percentage of drivers that
have been extracted from the diskette. Drivers are read into memory
and survive long enough for the system to successfully boot to its
installation program. The drives loaded are:

mlx.itu and mdac.itu

• The Continue Supplemental Driver Installation screen is displayed

when all the new drivers on the diskette have been processed.

8. Now, remove the MDAC Supplemental Diskette from the disk drive

and then insert the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant diskette.

9. Press <F4> to finish the driver installation. You will see the following

display:

mlx - Device Driver

mdac - Device Driver

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