User manual

DRIVER INSTALLATION

These driver diskettes are intended for use with new operating

system installations. Determine the correct kernel version and

identify which diskette images contain drivers for that kernel. If the

driver le ends in .img, create the appropriate driver diskette using

“dd” utility. The following steps are required to create the driver

diskettes:

1. The computer system BIOS must be set to boot-up from the

CD-ROM.

2. Insert the SATA Controller Driver software CD disc into the CD-

ROM drive.

3. The system will boot-up from CD-ROM Drive.

Note:

It will take about 5 minutes to boot up the Knoppix

GNU/Linux, Live Linux CD.

4. To create the driver diskette, for example: making the Cen-

tOS 5 driver diskette.

4a. Execute xterm by clicking the XTerm icon on left-bottom

toolbar.

4b. Change the path to the specic driver image.

cd /cdrom/PACKAGES/Linux/DRIVER/CentOS_5

4c. Dump the driver image into oppy diskette using "dd" util

-ity, Command format: dd if=<image le> of=

dd if=driver.img of=/dev/fd0

4d. When the operation is complete, the following messages are

shown.

2880+0 records in

2880+0 records out

1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 97.5903 seconds, 15.1

kB/s

The driver diskette is made now. Proceed to the following

instruction for installation procedures.