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G. Using LINUX
After having explained the installation of the ICP Controller and the host drives in chapters
B and C, we now explain how to install the operating system LINUX. For a successful in-
stallation, we recommend that you take a close look at the manuals which came with your
LINUX distribution package. We have tested LINUX from: Caldera, Debian, DLD, LST, Red-
Hat and S.u.S.E. . If you require an ICP Linux disk, this can be created from the ICP System
CDROM.
G.1 Transparency of Host Drives
The structure of the Host Drives, which have been installed with ICPCON (in chapter C), is
not known to LINUX. I.e., the operating system does not recognize that a given Host Drive
consists of a number of hard disks forming a disk array. To LINUX, this Host Drive simply
appears as one single hard disk with the capacity of the disk array. This complete transpar-
ency represents the easiest way to operate disk arrays under LINUX; neither LINUX nor the
PCI computer need to be involved in the administration of these complex disk array con-
figurations.
G.2 Available Drivers and Tools
gdth.tgz ICP driver sources for intel and alpha systems
icpcon.tgz ICPCON and object files (intel)
icpcona.tgz ICPCON and object files (alpha)
The following ICP drivers are part of the various Kernel versions:
from Kernel 2.0.31 ICP driver 1.00
from Kernel 2.0.35/2.1.63 ICP driver 1.02
from Kernel 2.0.36 ICP driver 1.07
from Kernel 2.2.0 (pre7) ICP driver 1.10
G.3 Updating the driver using the driver sources
a) Copy the driver sources to /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi
(for a DOS disk for example with 'mcopy a:gdth.tgz')
b) Unpack the archive with 'tar xvfz gdth.tgz
c) Compile a new Kernel
(procedure depends on the Linux distribution, 'make config', 'make dep', 'make clean'
may become necessary before)
G.4 Driver installation or update using a patch
New installation of a driver patch:
a) Copy the corresponding patch on the Linux system
(preferably to /usr/src/linux e.g. gdtp2036.gz for Linux 2.0.36)