RocketRAID 2680 Fedora Linux Installation Guide
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1 Overview
Overview
Overview
Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use
RocketRAID
RocketRAID
RocketRAID
RocketRAID
Controller on Fedora Linux system.
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2 Installing
Installing
Installing
Installing Fedora
Fedora
Fedora
Fedora Linux
Linux
Linux
Linux on
on
on
on RR2680
RR2680
RR2680
RR2680 controller
controller
controller
controller
If you would like to install Fedora Linux onto drives attached to RR2680 controller, please
perform the following operations:
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Step
Step
Step 1
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Prepar
Prepar
Prepareeee Your
Your
Your
Your Hardware
Hardware
Hardware
Hardware for
for
for
for Installation
Installation
Installation
Installation
After you attach your hard disks to RR2680 controller, you can use RR2680 BIOS Setting
Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives , which are not physically attached
to RR2680 controller, from your system.
Note
Note
Note
Note
If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR2680 controller
BIOS will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot. Otherwise you may
be unable to boot up your system.
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Step
Step
Step 2
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2 Check
Check
Check
Check System
System
System
System BIOS
BIOS
BIOS
BIOS Settings
Settings
Settings
Settings
In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change
B
B
B
Boot
oot
oot
oot S
S
S
Sequence
equence
equence
equence
in such a way that the system
will first boot from floppy or CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS manual to
see how to set boot sequence.
If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from
floppy or CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot device to boot
up the system.
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Step
Step
Step 3
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3 Prepar
Prepar
Prepar
Prepareeee the
the
the
the Driver
Driver
Driver
Driver Diskette
Diskette
Diskette
Diskette
In the following document, the floppy diskette stands for the floppy diskette which is
inserted into the on-board floppy controller, the USB floppy diskette stands for the floppy
diskette inserted into the USB floppy controller, the USB diskette stands for USB flash
disk and USB harddisk, the USB storage stands for USB diskette and USB floppy
controller.
Put the diver files on a (USB) floppy diskette.
Windows:
Create a MS-DOS filesystem and extract the archive file to the (USB) floppy diskette.
Linux:
#
#
#
# mkdosfs
mkdosfs
mkdosfs
mkdosfs /dev/fd0
/dev/fd0
/dev/fd0
/dev/fd0
