IBM REDP-4372-00 manual Downloading and unpacking the drivers, System board driver package

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2.3.1 Downloading and unpacking the drivers

Drivers are prepared in Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment as software packages. The following steps show how a system board driver for a SurePOS system is downloaded, unpacked and created as a device driver software package that can be used during deployments.

1.First, download the appropriate driver file from the relevant web site. The latest device drivers for IBM SurePOS systems can be found at http://www2.clearlake.ibm.com/store/support. In our case we are creating a driver package for the system board driver for the IBM SurePOS System type 4840-553. which are in the file intelinf-2kxp04101012.exe as shown in Figure 2-19.

Figure 2-19 System board driver package

2.Next, we run the executable for system board driver and select an extract location for the files and click the Unzip button as shown in Figure 2-20 on page 32.

Figure 2-20 Select Extract location for driver package

3.After the extract of the system driver completes sucessfully click the OK button to confirm the completion of the extract as shown in Figure 2-21.

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