Q-Logic manual Windows 2000 Driver Installation QL2300.SYS, Creating the Driver Disk, Section

Section 6

Windows 2000 Driver Installation

(QL2300.SYS)

6.1

Introduction

This section provides instructions for installing the Windows 2000 driver under the following operating system conditions:

■Initial installation of the Windows 2000 operating system and the Windows 2000 driver

■Installation of the Windows 2000 driver in an already installed Windows 2000 operating system

■Installing an updated Windows 2000 driver in an already installed Windows 2000 operating system that has an older version of the driver

6.2

Creating the Driver Disk

Follow these steps to create driver disk containing the files needed to install the Windows XP driver:

1.Locate the driver you want on the QLogic web site (http://www.qlogic.com) and click Link to driver.

2.If prompted What would you like to do with this file?, choose Save this program to disk. Specify a temporary location on the hard drive and download the driver.

3.Insert a blank disk in drive A.

4.Run the self-extracting file you just downloaded, specifying A:\ for Unzip To Folder.

6.3

Windows 2000 Installation

To install Windows 2000 on your system, perform the installation procedures in section 6.3.1. If Windows 2000 is already loaded on your system, perform the installation procedures in section 6.3.2. If Windows 2000 and an older Windows 2000 driver are already installed on your system, perform the update procedures in section 6.3.3.

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