Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 550)

Quick Installation Manual for Windows Drivers P010078-01A Rev. A
2. Driver Installation Options
AutoPilot Installer
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Utility Only installation. If the drivers in the driver kit share the same version
with those already installed on the system, you can reinstall or update the
previously installed utility without reinstalling the drivers.
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Text-Only installation. Text-based installation mode is used automatically
when AutoPilot Installer is run on a Server Core system.
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Network installation. You can place the driver kit installers on a shared
network drive and install them across your local area network (LAN).
Network-based installation is often used in conjunction with unattended
installation and scripting. This allows you to configure and install the same
driver and utility versions on all the hosts in a storage area network (SAN).
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Unattended installation. You can run the driver kit installers and AutoPilot
Installer with no user interaction from a command line or script. Unattended
installation works for both hardware-first and software-first installations and all
driver kits. An unattended installation operates in silent mode (also referred to
as quiet mode) and creates an extensive report file with installation status.
Note: Complete driver and utilities documentation may be downloaded from the
Emulex website (www.emulex.com). Click Downloads at the top of the web
page and navigate by clicking the appropriate links.
Starting Installers from a Command Prompt or Script
When a driver kit or AutoPilot Installer is run from a command prompt or command
script (batch file), the Windows command processor does not wait for the installer to
run to completion. As a result, you cannot check the exit code of the installer before the
next command is executed. Emulex recommends that for command line invocation,
always use the “start” command with the “/wait” option. This causes the command
processor to wait for the installer to finish before it continues.
For more information on command line installation and configuration parameters, see
the AutoPilot Installer Command Line and Configuration File Parameters topic in the
Emulex Drivers for Windows User Manual.
Running a Software Installation Interactively
There are two options when performing an installation interactively. These options
assume you have already downloaded the driver kit installer from the Emulex website.
Option 1: Automatically Run AutoPilot Installer
Use this option unless you have specific configuration needs.
1. Double-click the driver kit or run it from a command line. The command line
parameter APargs allows you to specify arguments that are automatically passed to
the AutoPilot Installer command. A Welcome page is displayed with driver kit
version information and Emulex contact information (see the AutoPilot Installer
Command Line and Configuration File Parameters topic in the Emulex Driver for
Windows User Manual for more information on command line installations).