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Installing Red Hat Linux Driver
Dell™ CERC and PERC RAID Controllers Operating System Driver Installation Guide
Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver
Use the procedures in this section to install the Red Hat Linux driver for Red Hat Linux 8.1, 9.0, AS 2.1, 3.0, and ES 2.1, 3.0. The driver is updated frequently.
To make sure you have the current version of the driver, you can download the updated Red Hat Linux driver from Dell Support at
support.dell.com .
For information about installing a standard Linux driver, see Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver .
n <Shift><1> for <F1>
n <Shift><2> for <F2>
n <Shift><3> for <F3>
n <Shift><4> for <F4>
n <Shift><5> for <F5>
n <Shift><6> for <F6>
n <Shift><0> for <F10>
Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver
To install a Red Hat Linux driver more recent than the one on the Red Hat CD, you must use a driver diskette when you are installing the operating system.
See
Installing the Driver for information on this procedure. You must download the files before you begin the operating system installation.
For more detailed installation instructions for Red Hat Linux 9.0 or later, see the operating system installation guide on the Dell Support site at
support.dell.com .
Creating a Driver Diskette
Before beginning the installation, download the driver appropriate for your version of Red Hat Linux from support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This
file includes two RPMs and five driver disk files. From a Red Hat Linux system, enter the following commands to separate the individual driver files from the tar
archive file:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
tar xvzf -C /mnt/floppy /tmp/filename.tar.gz
Installing the Driver
Perform the following steps to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 or later and the appropriate RAID drivers.
1. Boot normally from the Red Hat Linux installation CD.
NOTE: On a Linux 8.0 system, when you run Cerc Manager (v. 5.23) from a Gnome-terminal in XWindows, the <F10> key cannot be used to create a
logical drive. Instead, you can use the alternate keys <Shift><0>. (This is not an issue if Xterm is used to call cercmgr). The following is a list of alternate
keys you can use in case of problems with keys <F1> through <F6>, and <F10>:
NOTE: You can also create a driver diskette using the Dell OpenManage Systems Management CD or Server Support CD. See Creating a Driver Diskette in
the Installing the Windows Driver section for more information.