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The following drivers are available on the CD:
SCSI drivers
RAID drivers (for the optional PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller)
Network interface controller (NIC) drivers
The following subsections describe the choices available with this option.
The following are available for the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 operating sys-
tem. You must create a separate diskette for each option.
Create Driver Diskette — This option allows you to create a diskette that contains
SCSI and NIC drivers for Windows NT Server 4.0. You must create a driver dis-
kette in order to install the drivers for the correct operation of this system.
Create RAID Driver Diskette — This option allows you to create a diskette that
contains drivers for the optional PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller for Win-
dows NT Server 4.0.
This option allows you to create a driver diskette and an Adaptec EZ-SCSI configura-
tion utility diskette for use with the Novell NetWare 4.11 operating system. The
following choices are available with this option:
Create Driver Diskette — This option allows you to create a diskette that contains
SCSI and NIC drivers as well as drivers for the optional PowerEdge Expandable
RAID Controller for Novell NetWare 4.11.
Create Adaptec EZ-SCSI Diskette — This option allows you to create a diskette
that contains the configuration utility for Adaptec SCSI controllers. The configura-
tion utility works with the optional Adaptec AHA-2940U2W and the built-in
Adaptec 78 xx series SCSI controllers when used with Novell NetWare 4.11. This
diskette also contains MS-DOS
needed to install NetWare from an MS-DOS environment.
The utility partition is a bootable partition on the hard-disk drive that provides some of
the functions available on the Dell Server Assistant CD. Most of the applications
found on the CD are contained in the utility partition, occupying approximately 10 MB
of space on the system's hard-disk drive. When implemented, the partition boots and
provides an executable environment for the partition's utilities. When the partition is
not implemented, it is designated as a non–MS-DOS partition.
NOTE: The utility partition provides only limited MS-DOS functionality and cannot be
used as a general-purpose MS-DOS partition.
To start the utility partition, press the <F10> key during POST.
Like the Dell Server Assistant CD, the utility partition provides a menu-driven interface
from which you invoke the partition's utilities. Selections can be made using either a
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drivers for CD-ROM drive access, which are