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Installing the Driver for a Boot Controller in a New NetWare5 Server, Edit startup.ncf, Ctrl+A

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Adaptec RAID Installation Guide 13 Select Edit startup.ncf. If needed, edit the file so that i2opci.nlm is listed before bkstrosm.ham in your startup.ncf file. 14 Shutdown and restart the server. Installing the Driver for a Boot Controller in a New NetWare 5 Server In this scenario, you are installing the Adaptec RAID controller as a boot controller in a new NetWare 5 server. To install the driver 1 Create a driver floppy disk using the Adaptec RAID Installation CD. To create the disk a Insert the Adaptec RAID Installation CD in your drive and a blank floppy disk in the floppy disk drive. b Copy all the files in \packages\netware\5.x\driver to the floppy disk. c Remove the Adaptec RAID Installation CD and the driver floppy disk. 2 Install the Adaptec RAID controller as the primary controller and attach the disk drives. 3 Start up the server. During restart, press Ctrl+A to start SMOR. Use SMOR to create the RAID. For details, refer to Using SMOR on page 2-10. 4 Install and configure a secondary controller, if any. 5 Create a directory on the C drive named nwupdate. 6 Insert the driver disk you created in Step 1. 7 Copy a:\ to c:\nwupdate. 8 Start the NetWare installation program from the CD. 9 On the Server Drivers - Summary menu, highlight Disk and CD-ROM Drivers and press Enter. 10 When prompted select i2opci.nlm and bkstrosm.ham as drivers. 11 Complete the NetWare installation according to the Novell documentation. 3-24

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Adaptec RAID Installation Guide
13
Select
Edit startup.ncf
. If needed, edit the file so that
i2opci.nlm
is listed before
bkstrosm.ham
in your
startup.ncf
file.
14
Shutdown and restart the server.
Installing the Driver for a Boot Controller in a New
NetWare 5 Server
In this scenario, you are installing the Adaptec RAID controller as a
boot controller in a new NetWare 5 server. To install the driver
1
Create a driver floppy disk using the
Adaptec RAID Installation CD
.
To create the disk
a
Insert the
Adaptec RAID Installation CD
in your drive and a
blank floppy disk in the floppy disk drive.
b
Copy all the files in
\packages\netware\5.
x
\driver
to the floppy
disk.
c
Remove the
Adaptec RAID Installation CD
and the driver
floppy disk.
2
Install the Adaptec RAID controller as the primary controller
and attach the disk drives.
3
Start up the server. During restart, press
Ctrl+A
to start SMOR.
Use SMOR to create the RAID. For details, refer to
Using
SMOR
on page 2-10
.
4
Install and configure a secondary controller, if any.
5
Create a directory on the
C
drive named
nwupdate
.
6
Insert the driver disk you created in
Step 1
.
7
Copy
a:\
to
c:\nwupdate
.
8
Start the NetWare installation program from the CD.
9
On the Server Drivers – Summary menu, highlight
Disk and
CD-ROM Drivers
and press
Enter
.
10
When prompted select
i2opci.nlm
and
bkstrosm.ham
as
drivers.
11
Complete the NetWare installation according to the Novell
documentation.