BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
User Manual
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
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Linux: Installing Drivers and Applications
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BC4000-UM100-R
L
INUX
: I
NSTALLING
D
RIVERS
AND
A
PPLICATIONS
The driver kit is delivered as either a compressed floppy diskette image (with a name ending in .img.gz) or as
a compressed ISO CD-ROM image (with a name ending in .iso.gz). Uncompress the image with gzip -d, and
then either mount the image using the loopback driver or write the image to a floppy or CD-ROM as
appropriate. You can also mirror the contents of the image to a USB memory drive for those systems that will
correctly install a driver from a USB memory drive. More specific instructions for using the image files and
installing the driver can be found in the README in the driver image.
T
RANSFERRING
D
RIVERS
TO
F
LOPPY
D
ISK
(L
INUX
)
To continue the installation, you must copy the drivers on the RAIDCore media CD to a floppy disk. Follow the
instructions provided below.
Linux: To transfer the drivers to a floppy disk:
You can use any computer that is running Linux and has both a CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive.
1.
Insert a floppy disk in the floppy disk drive.
2.
Insert the RAIDCore media CD in the CD-ROM drive.
3.
Mount the CD at a convenient location. The CD is in ISO9660 format.
Example:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
4.
To find the kernel version, processor type, and architecture being used, at the command prompt, type:
uname -a
Example output:
Linux <
system>.<domain> 2.4.21-4.ELsmp #1 SMP <date & time> i686 GNU/Linux
5.
From the <
cd mount point>/linux/<vendor>/<version>/driver folder, select the distribution version of Linux that
you need.
6.
Select the driver disk image appropriate for your system architecture. Example driver names include the
following:
Fedora Core 1
dd-FC1-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl-athlon.img.gz
dd-FC1-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl-i686.img.gz
Red Hat Linux 9.0
dd-RH9-2.4.20-8-i686.img.gz
dd-RH9-2.4.20-8-athlon.img.gz
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
dd-RHEL3.0-2.4.21-4.EL-i686.img.gz
dd-RHEL3.0-2.4.21-4.EL-athlon.img.gz
7.
Uncompress and copy the floppy image to the floppy disk using
dd
.
Example:
zcat dd.img-athlon.gz | dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
Use this floppy disk to install the drivers during the driver installation process described below.
