Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 5i - Manual (Page 45)

Driver Installation
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Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver
Use the procedures in this section to install the driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (versions 3 and 4)
and ES (versions 3 and 4). The driver is updated frequently. To ensure that you have the current version
of the driver, download the updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver from the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com.
Creating a Driver Diskette
Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD or
download the driver appropriate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 3 and 4) from the Dell Support
website at support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This file includes two Red Hat Package
Managers (RPMs) and driver update disk files. The package also contains the Dynamic Kernel Module
Support (DKMS) Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) file.
The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system, perform the
following steps.
1 Execute gunzip on the package.
2 Execute tar xvf on the package.
Note that the package contains DKMS RPM, the driver RPM (dkms enabled) and the Driver Update
Diskette (DUD) image(s).
3 Use the dd command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate image for the purpose.
dd if=<name of the dd image file> of=/dev/fd0
4 Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in this section.
File and Directories Needed to Create the Driver Update Diskette (DUD)
The following files are needed before you create the DUD.
NOTE:
The megaraid_sas driver package installs these files. You do not need to do anything at this point.
1 There is a directory /usr/src/megaraid_sas-<driver_version>, which contains the driver
source code, dkms.conf, and specifications file for the driver.
2 In this directory, there is a subdirectory called redhat_driver_disk which contains the files needed to
create the DUD. The files needed are disk_info, modinfo, modules.dep, and pcitable.
3 To create the DUD image for pre-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the kernel source package must be
installed to compile the driver. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 distribution, the kernel source is
not needed.
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