Solaris Sparc Driver Installation; Introduction; Installing The Solaris Sparc Driver From A Cd-Rom - Qlogic SANblade 2300 Series User Manual

Solaris SPARC Driver Installation

10.1

Introduction

This section provides instructions for installing the Solaris SPARC driver in an
already installed Solaris SPARC operating system.
The latest version of the Solaris SPARC driver package is available on the QLogic
Web site. The files in the driver package cannot be read nor installed from a DOS
environment. Be sure to review the README.TXT file for both new and changed
information.
To install the driver from a CD-ROM, see
QLogic Web site, see
media, for example, a floppy disk, transfer the qla2300.Z file to a temporary directory
on the machine where the driver is to be installed, then continue with
section 10.3.
10.2

Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from a CD-ROM

Perform the following steps to install the Solaris SPARC driver from a CD-ROM to
your system.
NOTE: To install the QLA2300 driver, you must have superuser privileges.
1. Log on to the system as superuser.
2. Create a temporary directory where you can copy the driver.
3. Change the directory (cd) to the CD-ROM mount point (usually /cdrom, but
the location varies. Ask your system administrator for the specific directory).
4. Change the directory (cd) to the Solaris directory.
5. Copy (cp) the qla2300.Z file from the CD-ROM to the temporary directory
created in
6. Change the directory (cd) to the temporary directory created in
7. At the command prompt, type:
uncompress ./qla2300.Z
8. Step 7 produces a file in the same directory called qla2300.
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section 10.3. If you are installing the driver from another
step 2.
section 10.2. To install the driver from the
step 4 in
step 2.
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