Software Required; Configuring Integrated Sas Raid; Installation Tips; Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation - Acer Altos R720 Installation & Configuration Manual

Software Required

The management utility of integrated SAS RAID can be found in the EasyBUILD
7.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
Intel RAID Web
Console

Configuring integrated SAS RAID

Please refer to the Appendix A. for the integrated SAS RAID configuration.

Installation Tips

NOTE. There is no built-in driver Integrated SAS RAID in the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4.0 EM64T Update2. If you do not have the optional internal USB floppy
drive, you need an external USB floppy drive for applying driver during the OS
installation.
Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 EM64T Update2 cannot recognize the
1.
integrated SAS RAID, you need to make a driver diskette from the
EasyBUILD 7.1 build 100 first before the installation.
Type linux dd when the prompt boot: appears at the start.
2.
Please select the sda as the Driver Disk Source.
3.
Follow the instruction to load the integrated SAS RAID driver from the
4.
driver diskette.
At the Package Installation Defaults, select Customize software packages
5.
to be installed.
At the Package Group Selection step, select Development Tools under
6.
Development.
Follow the normal procedure to finish the installation.
7.

Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation

1. You can find the Intel 82546EB driver in EasyBUILD 7.1 build 100. Please
refer to directory of the 82546EB driver in Driver Required section and
copy the driver from the EasyBUILD 7.1 build 100 to HDD first.
# mount /media/cdrecorder
# cp –R /media/cdrecorder/Disk/R720/NIC/Intel/pro1000.lx/. /tmp
2. Change the directory to the driver source and install the driver
# cd /tmp/src/
# make install
# insmod e1000.ko
3. Run the kudzu utility, it will auto detect the Intel 82563EB network
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Version Directory on EasyBUILD
1.13-00 \app\r720\raid\Integrated_SAS\Linux\
Altos R720 Installation Configuration Guide