Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System Using The Dud - Dell PowerEdge RAID H700 User Manual

Creating a Driver Update Diskette Using DKMS
Perform the following steps to create the Driver Update Diskette (DUD)
using the DKMS tool:
NOTE:
The driver must be installed on the system where this procedure is performed.
1 Install the DKMS-enabled megaraid_sas driver rpm package.
2 Type the following command in any directory:
dkms mkdriverdisk –m megaraid_sas –v <driver
version> -k <kernel version> -d <distro>
NOTE:
Server diskettes and
NOTE:
This starts the process to create the megaraid_sas DUD image. After the
DUD image has been built, you can find it in the DKMS tree for the
megaraid_sas driver. See the output of the dkms mkdriverdisk
command for the exact path.

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System Using the DUD

Perform the following steps to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 4
and 5) and the appropriate driver:
1 Boot normally from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation media.
2 At the command prompt, type: linux expert dd
3 When the install prompts for additional drivers, insert the diskette
or USB key and press <Enter>.
For information about creating a driver diskette, see "Creating a DUD" on
page 74.
4 Complete the installation as directed by the installation program.
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Driver Installation
The values for the –d option are
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For more information on usage of DKMS, see the DKMS main page.
for Suse Linux Enterprise
suse
for RHEL diskettes.