2. Restart your system.
3. When the installation selection screen appears, choose the type of installation you want, press
F5
(SuSE
10) or
F6
(SuSE 11), then select Yes to indicate that you have a driver disk.
4. Insert the USB driver disk.
5. (SuSE 11 SP3 only) Add 'brokenmodules=aacraid dud=1' to the Boot menu. This step ensures that the
installer loads from the driver disk, not the in-box driver.
6. When prompted to "Please choose the Driver Update medium", highlight the USB partition, then select
OK.
Note: If the "choose Driver Update medium" screen is displayed again, assume that
the driver was accepted; select Back, then press
Enter
.
7. (SuSE 11 SP3 only) On the "Welcome screen", switch to the console by typing
CTRL+ALT+F2
, then type
this command:
insmod ./update/000/modules/aacraid.ko
Press
CTRL+ALT+F7
to return to the Welcome screen.
8. Complete the installation, following the on-screen instructions.
9. Continue with
Managing Your Storage Spacetopic
.
7.6
Installing with Ubuntu Linux
Note: You need the Ubuntu installation DVD (or equivalent virtual media/iso image) to
complete this task. You must have root privilege to install the driver image.
To install the Microsemi Adaptec RAID controller driver while installing Ubuntu Linux:
1. Insert the Ubuntu Installation DVD, then restart your computer.
2. When the installation menu appears, select Install Ubuntu Server. Continue the installation until the
"Configure Network" screen appears, then type
CTRL+ALT+F2
to switch to the console.
3. Insert the USB driver disk, then type the following command to scan for the device:
fdisk -l
4. Assuming the USB drive is assigned to
/dev/sda1
, type the following commands to begin loading the
driver:
mkdir mnt2 /AACRAID
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt2
cp -R /mnt2/* /AACRAID
umount /mnt2
Note: The following steps assume you are installing Ubuntu 12 or higher.
5. Copy the driver file to the /lib/modules directory:
rmmod aacraid
cp -f /AACRAID/aacraid.ko
/lib/modules/3.16.0-23-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.ko
6. Remove the USB drive.
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