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Appendix A
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7.2 Making Floppy Diskettes for SlackWare 3.2 Installation
1. Prepare two formatted floppy diskettes.
2. Copy the files of Disk 1 and Disk 3 to a UNIX machine with
floppy drive.
3. Place the formatted disk into the floppy drive and use the UNIX
"dd" command to make the driver floppy diskettes.
For example:
# dd if=iabl11f1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
# dd if=iabl11f3 of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
4. Label each disk according to the above description.
7.3 Installing Red Hat Linux
IMPORTANT:
•
ALWAYS CHANGE THE CACHE TO WRITE-BACK DISABLED
BEFORE INSTALLING OPERATING SYSTEMS AND
PARTITIONING.
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The ASUS PCI-DA2100/-DA2200 is a high-performance PCI RAID
controller with Write-Back cache enabled. During the installation of
some operating systems, the installation program might reset the
computer automatically while the cache still contains data not yet
written to the drives. It might cause the installation or partitioning
failure. To avoid the failure, always switch the cache mode to Write-
Back DISABLED (Write-Through mode) before changing the drive
partition (e.g., using MS-DOS FDISK) and before installing any
operating systems.
1. Follow these steps to change the cache mode to Write-back
Disabled:
a) Using BIOS Text RAID Manager (PC platform only) to
disable the Write-Back Cache. Power on the computer,
press <CTRL><I> when the information appears.