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Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI Cards User's Guide Installing Red Hat Linux Installing the Red Hat Driver in a New Linux System To install the Red Hat 8.0, 9.0, or AS 2.1 driver in a new Linux system: 1 Create a driver disk. See Appendix D, Creating Driver Floppy Disks for information on creating a driver disk. 2 Restart the computer. 3 Press Ctrl-A when prompted to enter SCSISelect. You need to enable and use HostRAID to create the array and logical drive that you will use to install Linux. 4 From the device menu that appears, select a channel and press Enter. 5 From the Options menu, select Configure/View SCSI Controller Settings and press Enter. 6 From the Configuration menu, select HostRAID and press Enter. 7 From the HostRAID Pop-Up menu, select Enabled. 8 If creating an array, proceed to Step 9. If you are not creating an array at this time, skip to Step 10. 9 After you enable HostRAID, you can select Configure/View HostRAID on the Options menu to create and maintain RAID arrays. See Chapter 4, Using the SCSISelect Utility to Manage Arrays for information on creating a RAID array. 10 When the array is finished building, or if you are continuing from Step 8, insert the Red Hat CD Disk 1 in the CD-ROM drive and restart the system. 11 When the Red Hat Welcome screen appears, type linux dd at the boot prompt. 12 When prompted, insert the driver disk you created (see Step 1) and select OK. 13 Follow the prompts to set up your preferred environment. 7-2

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7-2
Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI Cards User
’
s Guide
Installing Red Hat Linux
Installing the Red Hat Driver in a New Linux System
To install the Red Hat 8.0, 9.0, or AS 2.1 driver in a new Linux
system:
1
Create a driver disk. See
Appendix D,
Creating Driver Floppy
Disks
for information on creating a driver disk.
2
Restart the computer.
3
Press
Ctrl-A
when prompted to enter SCSI
Select
. You need to
enable and use HostRAID to create the array and logical drive
that you will use to install Linux.
4
From the device menu that appears, select a channel and press
Enter
.
5
From the Options menu, select
Configure/View SCSI
Controller Settings
and press
Enter
.
6
From the Configuration menu, select
HostRAID
and press
Enter
.
7
From the HostRAID Pop-Up menu, select
Enabled
.
8
If creating an array, proceed to
Step 9
. If you are not creating an
array at this time, skip to
Step 10
.
9
After you enable HostRAID, you can select
Configure/View
HostRAID
on the Options menu to create and maintain RAID
arrays. See
Chapter 4,
Using the SCSISelect Utility to Manage
Arrays
for information on creating a RAID array.
10
When the array is finished building, or if you are continuing
from
Step 8
, insert the Red Hat CD Disk 1 in the CD-ROM drive
and restart the system.
11
When the Red Hat Welcome screen appears, type
linux dd
at
the boot prompt.
12
When prompted, insert the driver disk you created (see
Step 1
)
and select
OK
.
13
Follow the prompts to set up your preferred environment.