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

Altos R720 Installation Configuration Guide

Software Required

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

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

Installation Tips

NOTE. There is no built-in driver Integrated SAS hardware 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 hardware 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 hardware RAID driver
4.
from the 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.
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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
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Version EasyBUILD Version
1.13-00 EasyBUILD 7.1 build 100 (or later)