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Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI Cards User’s Guide
Installing Red Hat Linux
Installing the Red Hat Driver in a New Linux System
To install the Red Hat 8.0, 9.0, or AS 2.1 driver in a new Linux
system:
1
Create a driver disk. See
Appendix D, Creating Driver Floppy
for information on creating a driver disk.
2
Restart the computer.
3
Press Ctrl-A when prompted to enter SCSISelect. You need to
enable and use HostRAID to create the array and logical drive
that you will use to install Linux.
4
From the device menu that appears, select a channel and press
Enter
.
5
From the Options menu, select Configure/View SCSI
Controller Settings
and press Enter.
6
From the Configuration menu, select HostRAID and press
Enter
.
7
From the HostRAID Pop-Up menu, select Enabled.
8
If creating an array, proceed to
. If you are not creating an
9
After you enable HostRAID, you can select Configure/View
HostRAID
on the Options menu to create and maintain RAID
arrays. See
Chapter 4, Using the SCSISelect Utility to Manage
for information on creating a RAID array.
10
When the array is finished building, or if you are continuing
from
, insert the Red Hat CD Disk 1 in the CD-ROM drive
and restart the system.
11
When the Red Hat Welcome screen appears, type
linux dd
at
the boot prompt.
12
When prompted, insert the driver disk you created (see
and select OK.
13
Follow the prompts to set up your preferred environment.
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