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Installing and Starting Adaptec Storage Manager
Installing Storage Manager on Linux
Notes:
■With Linux, Storage Manager supports up to 12 Adaptec
RAID controllers.
■Storage Manager includes the Java Runtime Environment
(JRE).
■If a previous version of Storage Manager is already
installed and you are upgrading, you must first remove
that version. Any customization files you may have
created when you used the previous version are saved and
used in the upgrade. To remove Storage Manager, type the
rpm --erase StorMan command.
■For the latest on Adaptec’s support of Linux, visit
www.adaptec.com.
To install Storage Manager:
1Insert the Adaptec installation CD.
2Mount the Adaptec installation CD:
3Change to the cdrom directory:
4Extract the RPM package and install it:
rpm --install ./StorMan*.rpm
5Unmount the Adaptec installation CD:
for Red Hat mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
for SuSE mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
for Red Hat cd /mnt/cdrom/linux/manager
for SuSE cd /media/cdrom/linux/manager
for Red Hat umount /mnt/cdrom
for SuSE umount /media/cdrom