AOC-USAS-L8i Add-on Card User’s Manual
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5-2 Hardware and Software Requirements
The hardware requirements for MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as follows:
• PC-compatible computer with an IA-32 (32-bit) Intel Architecture processor or an
EM64T (64-bit) processor and at least 128 Mbytes of system memory (256 Mbytes
recommended)
• Hard disk drive with at least 50 Mbytes available free space
The supported operating systems for the MegaRAID Storage Manager software are as
follows:
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft WindowsXP,
Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
• Red Hat Linux 3.0 or 4.0
• SUSE SLES 9, with latest updates and service packs
Refer to your server documentation and to the operating system documentation for
more information on hardware and operating system requirements.
5-3 Installing for Windows
Follow these steps if you need to install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a
system running Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft
Windows XP:
1. Insert the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installation CD in the CD-ROM
drive.
If necessary, find and double-click the setup.exe file to start the installation program.
2. When the WELCOME screen appears, click NEXT.
If MegaRAID Storage Manager software is already installed on this system, the
PROGRAM MAINTENANCE screen appears. Read the screen text and select MODIFY,
REPAIR, or REMOVE.
3. When the next screen appears, read and accept the user license, and click NEXT.
The CUSTOMER INFORMATION screen appears, as shown in Figure5-1.