Drivers Required; Patch Required; Configuring Lsi 1068 Sas; Installation Tips - Acer Altos G540 Installation & Configuration Manual

Altos G540 Installation Configuration Guide
Pack 5 overlay CD) on Altos G540 with LSI 1068 SAS IM.

Drivers Required

For NetWare 6.5 SP5 installation with LSI 1068 SAS IM, the following device
drivers are required.
Device
LSI 1068 SAS
Onboard Intel
5000P Chipset
Onboard Intel
82563EB Gigabit
Ethernet
Onboard ATI
ES1000
Onboard USB 2.0

Patch Required

For NetWare 6.5 SP5 installation, the following patch is recommended.
Patch
ACPI PSM module
update

Configuring LSI 1068 SAS

Please refer to the Appendix B. for the LSI 1068 SAS IM configuration.

Installation Tips

Make a driver diskette for LSI 1068 SAS and onboard Intel 82563EB
1.
Gigabit Ethernet from EasyBUILD 7.1 build 200.
Boot the system from the NetWare 6.5 SP5 OS CD.
2.
At Welcome to the NetWare 6.5 server installation page, select Manual to
3.
install.
At Prepare boot partition page, create one 500 MB DOS partition.
4.
When you see the following message, please select Modify. Then, move
5.
the cursor to Storage adapters and press Enter.
The following device drivers were detected for this
server. Add, change, or delete device drivers as
needed.
Device types
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HotPlug Support Module
Storage adapters:
84
Version Directory on EasyBUILD
4.01.05 \Disk\G540\onboard\SAS\NW6.5\
N/A OS built-in
9.22 \Disk\G540\NIC\Intel\pro1000.nw
N/A OS built-in
N/A OS built-in
Where to download
http://support.novell.com/servlet/downloadfile?file=/un
s/nsd/psm7.exe/
Driver names
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(optional)
IDEATA, LSIMPTNW