Installation guide

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Adaptec RAID Installation Guide
If the CD drive is on a SCSI controller other than an Adaptec
RAID SCSI controller, refer to the CD drive guide.
If the CD drive is on an Adaptec SCSI RAID controller, create a
driver disk for DOS in addition to creating a driver disk for
Windows as described in Creating the Driver Disk on page 3-11.
Use the DOS driver disk to execute
setupcd.exe to establish
CD-ROM support.
Installing the Driver in a New Windows 98/Me System
In this scenario, you doing a full installation on one disk drive or
array group using an Adaptec RAID controller in a new system. To
install the driver
1 Install and configure your Adaptec RAID controller and hard
drives according to the instructions in Chapter 2.
2 Start up the system. During startup, press Ctrl+A to start
SMOR. Use SMOR to create the RAID. For details, refer to
Using SMOR on page 2-10.
3 Shut down the system and reboot from a bootable DOS disk.
4 Run fdisk and create a primary DOS partition of an appropriate
size.
5 Mark the primary DOS partition Active.
6 Reboot the system from the DOS disk.
7 Perform a system format by typing format c: \s.
8 Remove the boot disk from the floppy disk drive and reboot
the system from the
C drive.
9 Insert the Windows installation CD in the drive and type
d:\setup where d: is the letter assigned to your drive.
10 Follow the Windows installation prompts.