Q-Logic 8100 SERIES manual Installing the FCoE Driver for Rhel 5.3 Boot-from-SAN

4–Installation in a Linux Environment Installing Software

Installing the FCoE Driver for RHEL 5.3 Boot-from-SAN

The RHEL 5.3 operating system does not include the QLogic 8100 Series Adapter drivers. Therefore, to boot from SAN, you must load the adapter drivers during the operating system installation. QLogic provides a driver disk kit (DD-Kit) for RHEL 5.3 that contains the driver binaries for RHEL 5.3.

To download, create, and install a DD-Kit for RHEL 5.3 on the SAN:

1.Go to the QLogic Web site: http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com.

2.Click QLogic Products.

3.Click Adapters.

4.In the selection list, click Converged Network Adapters in the first column.

5.In the selection list, click on the adapter model number in the second column.

6.In the third column, click the version of the Linux operating system that is installed on the server, and then click Go. For example, in Figure 4-7, Linux Red Hat (64-bit)is selected for a QLE8152 adapter.

Figure 4-7. Select an Adapter and Linux Operating System

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