Planar Dome Md5/PCI, Installation Manual

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108 Chapter 4
Installing the PCI Digital UNIX Driver
The driver kit for your DOME Md5/PCI board ships on the
installation diskette. To install this kit onto your Digital
®
Alpha™ UNIX™ system, you must have root (superuser)
access privileges.
The commands you type are marked in the sample code
with a leading pound sign (#), which is the standard
superuser shell prompt.
To install the driver
1. Insert the kit diskette into the disk drive.
When you mount a file system, you must have an
empty directory to mount it on. Many systems have a
/mnt
directory as a temporary directory for mounting
temporary file systems.
2. If you do not have a
/mnt
or similar directory, create
one with these commands:
# cd /
# mkdir mnt
# chmod 755 /mnt
To mount the diskette, you need to know the device
name of your diskette drive. On most systems, this is
/dev/fd0c
, where:
•
fd
indicates it is a floppy disk
• Zero (
0
) indicates it is the first floppy disk
• The trailing
c
indicates you are mounting the
c partition, the entire disk