22 Driver Installation
Installing From the Dell Operating System Media
Use the Operating System media CD or DVD that came with your Dell workstation to install the driver
during the operating system installation.
1
Boot to the
Dell Precision™ Workstation Operating System
CD or DVD.
2
Continue your operating system installation using the instructions provided in the CD or DVD.
The driver loads automatically.
Installing the Red Hat Linux Driver
Use the procedures in this section to install the driver for Red Hat Linux (versions 4 and 5).
NOTE: The device driver for Red Hat Linux Version 5 is native. To ensure you have the latest version of this driver,
check the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. If a newer version exists, you can download the driver to
yoursystem.

Creating a Driver Diskette

Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Dell™ PowerEdge™ Service and Diagnostic
Utilities CD that shipped with your system or download the driver appropriate for Red Hat Linux
(versions 4 and 5) from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This
file includes a Red Hat Package Managers (RPMs), driver update disk files, and the Dynamic Kernel
Module Support (DKMS) Red Hat Package Manager file.
The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system:
1
Execute gunzip driver_package.tgz to unzip the files.
2
Execute tar -xvf on the package to extract the driver files from the tar package.
NOTE: The package contains a DKMS RPM, the driver RPM (DKMS enabled), Driver Update Diskette (DUD)
images, release notes, and source code.
3
Use the
dd
command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate DUD image for this purpose.
"dd if=<name of the dd image file> of=/dev/fd0"
4
Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in this section.
NOTE: The SAS 6i/R driver is native on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 operating system and later versions.
It is recommended that you install these operating systems with the native driver. After installation, use the
DUD image to update the driver.
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