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Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.1
RAID driver installation
After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install
an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This
part provides instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS
installation.
7.1.1
Creating a RAID driver disk
The system does not include a USB floppy drive. You may have to use a USB
floppy drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
Server
or Red Hat
®
Enterprise operating system on a hard disk drive that is included
in a RAID set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk
application in the support CD).
To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment
1. Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.
3. Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support CD.
Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
4. Restart the computer.
5. Press any key when prompted to boot from CD.
The Makedisk menu appears.
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
6. Use the arrow keys to select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create
and press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu.
Create Driver Diskette Menu
LSI 1068 B1 SAS Driver
ESB2 ASF Firmware update
FreeDOS command prompt