Configuring Integrated Sas Hardware Raid; Installation Tips; Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation - Acer Altos R720 Installation & Configuration Manual

Configuring integrated SAS hardware RAID

Please refer to the Appendix A. for the integrated SAS hardware RAID
configuration.

Installation Tips

NOTE. There is no built-in driver for Integrated SAS hardware RAID in the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T. If you do not have the optional internal USB
floppy drive, you need an external USB floppy drive for applying driver during
the OS installation.
Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T cannot recognize the
1.
integrated SAS hardware RAID, you need to make a driver diskette from
the EasyBUILD first before the installation.
Type linux dd when the prompt boot: appears at the start.
2.
Please select the sda as the Driver Disk Source.
3.
Follow the instruction to load the integrated SAS hardware RAID driver
4.
from the driver diskette.
At the package selection step, select Software Development for the
5.
installation package.
Please follow the normal procedure to finish the installation.
6.

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation

NOTE. Please install the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 EM64T prior to install the Gigabit Ethernet driver.
1. You can find the Gigabit Ethernet driver in EasyBUILD. Please copy the
driver from the EasyBUILD to HDD first.
# mount /dev/dvd /mnt
# cp –R /mnt/Disk/R720/NIC/Intel/pro1000.lx/. /tmp
2. Remove the OS built-in NIC driver
# rmmod e1000.ko
3. Change the directory to the driver source and install the driver
# cd /tmp/src/
# make install
# insmod e1000.ko
4. Run the kudzu utility, it will auto detect the Gigabit Ethernet controller
and help you to configure it.
# kudzu
5. Restart the network service to bring up both of the network interfaces.
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