Creating a Driver Diskette for Solaris

Creating a Driver Diskette for Solaris

Before installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller Drivers for Solaris, a Mylex MDAC Supplemental Driver Diskette (MDAC Supplemental Diskette) must be created according to the instructions in Appendix A, “Creating PCI Driver Installation Diskettes.”

This diskette will be used in both the primary and secondary installation processes and when updating a previously installed driver wherever instructed.

How to use the Mylex Supplemental

Driver Diskette

You can use the Mylex Supplemental Driver Diskette you just created in the previous section in one of two ways:

To use new drivers to install or upgrade the Solaris operating environment on a system with new hardware (primary installation), or

To add new drivers to support (update) new hardware on an already installed booted system (secondary installation).

Installing Solaris Using the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette for a Primary Installation

The steps below describe how to use drivers on the Solaris Device

Configuration Assistant Diskette1 for a Primary Installation to install Solaris (Intel Platform Edition) on a new system.

These instructions assume that you are installing Solaris 7 onto a x86 system using the Mylex MDAC driver.

Use the appropriate Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette as the boot diskette.

1.Insert the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette into your

1.The Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette is a boot diskette provided by Sun Microsystems.

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