[plug] installing a RAID card

[Craig Foster]

plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> I'm trying to install SME server (used to be e-smith) onto a new box
> with the LSI logic Megaraid 133-2 card.  SME server is based on
> Redhat 7.3.  
> 
> The LSI card is supported in 7.3, but with (AFAIK) with binary only
> drivers.  The card comes with a driver update disk to be used at
> install time.  This disk image is the only way these drivers are
> distributed, or at least, the only way that they are contained on the
> LSI web site    
> 
> The problem is that the SME server install doesn't give me any chance
> to install the drivers, ie, it doesn't give a lilo prompt to do the
> 'linux dd' bizo.  Does anyone know of anyway to interrupt the install
> script?   

AFAICR, it's during that install when it asks you to accept, type "accept
dd" instead to get it to prompt for a disk.
This does depend on whether the driver disks are that closely matched to
the kernel version that came with the original RH7.3
 
> Or better still, how to use the driver disk to update the driver
> after the install has finished?  The driver disk contains the 5 files 
> 
> modinfo  modules.cgz  modules.dep  pcitable  rhdd-6.1
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alan Graham
> 

Regards,

Craig F.
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