Dell 5 series User Manual

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Driver Installation 43Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux DriverUse the procedures in this section to install the driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (versions 3 and 4)and ES (versions 3 and 4). The driver is updated frequently. To ensure that you have the current versionof the driver, download the updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux driver from the Dell Support website atsupport.dell.com.Creating a Driver DisketteBefore beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD ordownload the driver appropriate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 3 and 4) from the Dell Supportwebsite at support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This file includes two Red Hat PackageManagers (RPMs) and driver update disk files. The package also contains the Dynamic Kernel ModuleSupport (DKMS) Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) file.The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system, perform thefollowing steps.1 Execute gunzip on the package.2 Execute tar xvf on the package.Note that the package contains DKMS RPM, the driver RPM (dkms enabled) and the Driver UpdateDiskette (DUD) image(s).3 Use the dd command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate image for the purpose.dd if= of the dd image file> of=/dev/fd04 Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in this section.File and Directories Needed to Create the Driver Update Diskette (DUD)The following files are needed before you create the DUD.NOTE: The megaraid_sas driver package installs these files. You do not need to do anything at this point.1 There is a directory/usr/src/megaraid_sas-, which contains the driversource code, dkms.conf, and specifications file for the driver.2 In this directory, there is a subdirectory called redhat_driver_disk which contains the files needed tocreate the DUD. The files needed are disk_info, modinfo, modules.dep, and pcitable.3 To create the DUD image for pre-Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the kernel source package must beinstalled to compile the driver. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 distribution, the kernel source isnot needed.Dell_PERC5_UG.book Page 43 Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:02 PM