McDATA 8832 warranty Red Hat Linux AS Broadcom driver installation, Fdisk Output

IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide

[root@fafrin root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 18.1 GB, 18158714880 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2207 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot		Start	End	Blocks	Id	System
/dev/sda1	*	1	13	104422	83	Linux
/dev/sda2		14	1543	12289725	83	Linux
/dev/sda3		1544	1805	2104515	82	Linux swap
/dev/sda4		1806	2207	3229065	83	Linux

Figure 33 fdisk Output

Note: If you see this message shown in Figure 34, answer no. In this situation, it may be possible to install successfully without the %pre script since it won’t attempt to partition the second path.

Figure 34 Invalid Partition Table

Aside from the 2 differences noted above, the process detailed in Section 4 is essentially unchanged; just make sure you are using the correct diskette image.

4.4 Red Hat Linux AS Broadcom driver installation

After loading the operating system, the network drivers should work immediately. However, we downloaded the latest Broadcom device drivers for Linux and performed the instructions in Example 6-1 to install them. The latest Broadcom device drivers were obtained from the following URL: http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-54186

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