Dell Serial Attached SCSI 5iR Integrated and Adapter - Manual (Page 24)

22 Driver Installation
Installing From the Dell Operating System Media
Use the Operating System media CD or DVD that came with your Dell Precision workstation to install
the driver during the operating system installation.
1 Boot to the Dell Precision workstation Operating System CD or DVD.
2 Continue your operating system installation using the instructions provided in the CD or DVD.
The driver loads automatically.
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, 4,
and 5) and ES (versions 3, 4, and 5).
NOTE: The device driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Version 5 is native. To ensure you have the latest version
of this driver, check the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. If a newer version exists, you can download the
driver to your system.
Creating a Driver Diskette
Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Dell™ PowerEdge™ Service and Diagnostic
Utilities CD or download the driver appropriate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 3, 4, and 5) 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 file.
The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system, perform the
following steps.
1 gunzip the package.
2 Execute tar -xvf on the package.
NOTE: 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 DUD image for this 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.
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