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Installing on UnixWare, Installing on VMWare, Installing on FreeBSD

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Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 53 Installing on UnixWare To install the driver on UnixWare: 1 Start your computer, then insert the driver disk. 2 Begin the driver package installer: pkgadd -d diskette1 3 At the installer prompt, type go. 4 Select 1 for the aacraid package. 5 When the installation is complete, select q to quit the installer. 6 Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk. 7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 55. Installing on VMWare Note: The embedded driver provided by VMWare should be suitable for most applications. If an updated driver is needed, use the following procedure. To install the driver on VMWare: 1 Start your computer, then insert the driver disk. 2 At the console screen of the VMware server, mount the Adaptec CD: mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. 3 Install the module RPM: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/xxx/yyy.rpm where xxx is the driver path, and yyy.rpm is the rpm file. 4 Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk. Note: Currently, Adaptec Storage Manager is not supported on VMWare. To create and manage arrays, use the ARC utility. See page 57 for more information. Installing on FreeBSD To install the driver on FreeBSD: 1 Start your computer. 2 Insert and mount the driver disk: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt 3 Copy the driver package to the /tmp directory: cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp 4 Install the driver package: pkg_add /tmp/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz

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Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System
●
53
Installing on UnixWare
To install the driver on UnixWare:
1
Start your computer, then insert the driver disk.
2
Begin the driver package installer:
pkgadd -d diskette1
3
At the installer prompt, type
go
.
4
Select
1
for the aacraid package.
5
When the installation is complete, select
q
to quit the installer.
6
Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.
7
Continue with
Managing Your Storage Space
on page 55
.
Installing on VMWare
Note:
The embedded driver provided by VMWare should be suitable for most applications. If an
updated driver is needed, use the following procedure.
To install the driver on VMWare:
1
Start your computer, then insert the driver disk.
2
At the console screen of the VMware server, mount the Adaptec CD:
mount –r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.
3
Install the module RPM:
rpm –ivh /mnt/cdrom/xxx/yyy.rpm
where
xxx
is the driver path, and
yyy.rpm
is the rpm file.
4
Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.
Note:
Currently, Adaptec Storage Manager is not supported on VMWare. To create and manage
arrays, use the
ARC
utility. See
page 57
for more information.
Installing on FreeBSD
To install the driver on FreeBSD:
1
Start your computer.
2
Insert and mount the driver disk:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
3
Copy the driver package to the /tmp directory:
cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp
4
Install the driver package:
pkg_add /tmp/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz