Materials required, Creating a red hat linux driver disk – Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e User Manual

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Appendix B. Driver and Software Installation

312

3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.2

Driver Installation Under Red Hat or Fedora Core

Linux

Materials required

•

LSI 3ware CD

•

Floppy diskette or USB drive, if you need to create a driver install disk.

•

Fedora or Red Hat installation disk (Not required if Linux is already
installed on another drive.)

Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Disk

If you are installing Linux on the new drive or unit managed by the 3ware
RAID controller, you must create a 3ware driver install disk on a diskette or a
USB drive. If Linux is already installed on another device, you may install the
3ware kernel driver module from the 3ware CD.

To create a Red Hat Linux driver install floppy diskette

1

Insert the 3ware CD into your Linux system. A GUI such as X windows is
required to load the 3ware menu.

To manually mount the CD, type:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

To start autorun, type:

/mnt/autorun

When it starts, you will be asked to agree to the LSI software license. To
continue, click

Agree

.

2

When the 3ware Menu appears, click the Driver Disk Images button.

3

In the 3ware Driver Disk Images menu, click the button for the driver disk
you want to create.

A confirmation window opens.

4

Insert a blank diskette into a drive and click the Yes button to begin
creating the driver floppy diskette.

Note:

If you need to create a Linux driver diskette for a Linux distribution other that

what is available on the menu, search the LSI KnowledgeBase for keyword 14546
at

http://kb.lsi.com

.

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