Installing Mellanox Winof-2 Driver; Attended Installation - Nvidia Mellanox User Manual

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Installing the incorrect exe file is prohibited. If you do so, an error message will be displayed.
For example, if you try to install a 64-bit executable file on a 32-bit machine, the wizard will
display the following (or a similar) error message: "The installation package is not supported
by this processor type. Contact your vendor."

Installing Mellanox WinOF-2 Driver

This section provides instructions for two types of installation procedures:
• Attended Installation - An installation procedure that requires frequent user intervention.
• Unattended Installation - An automated installation procedure that requires no user
intervention.
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Both Attended and Unattended installations require administrator privileges.
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WinOF-2 supports adapter cards based on the Mellanox ConnectX®-4 and above family of
adapter IC devices only. If you have ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro on your server, you will
need to install WinOF driver. For details on how to install WinOF driver, please refer to WinOF
User Manual .

Attended Installation

The following is an example of an installation session.
1. Double click the .exe and follow the GUI instructions to install MLNX_WinOF2.
2. [Optional] Manually configure your setup to contain the logs option (replace "LogFile" with the
relevant directory):
MLNX_WinOF2-1_10_<revision_version>_All_x64.exe
3. [Optional] If you do not want to upgrade your firmware version. (Note: MT_SKIPFWUPGRD
default value is False.)
MLNX_WinOF2-1_10_<revision_version>_All_x64.exe
/v"/l*vx [LogFile]"
/v" MT_SKIPFWUPGRD=1"
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