User`s guide

Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 58

5 Start the driver installer:

./install.sh -i

6 Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk.

7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 59.

Installing on VMware

Note: The embedded driver provided by VMware should be suitable for most applications. If an

updated driver is needed, use the following procedure.

To install the driver on VMware:

1 Start your computer, then insert the driver disk.

2 At the console screen of the VMware server, mount the Adaptec RAID Controller

Installation DVD:

mount –r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

3 Install the module RPM:

rpm -i --force VMware-3.5-64607-esx-drivers-scsi-aacraid-1.1.5-2457.i586.rpm

Note: The rpm version string may differ for your VMware distribution.

Follow the on-screen instructions to save the boot image and run the vmware-mkinitrd

command manually.

5 Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.

Note:

Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is not supported on VMware. To create and

manage arrays, you must connect to the VMware machine from a remote GUI or use the

ARCCONF utility. See page 61 for more information.

Installing on FreeBSD

To install the driver on FreeBSD:

1 Start your computer.

2 Insert and mount the driver disk:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

3 Copy the driver package to the /tmp directory:

cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp

4 Install the driver package:

pkg_add /tmp/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz

5 Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk.