Installation guide

Install or Update the Driver
(Installed Operating System)
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8 – Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
8.4
Install or Update the Driver (Installed Operating System)
Perform the following steps to install a new or upgrade an older version of the
qla2x00 driver on an already installed Red Hat Linux operating system. The
procedure consists of installing the driver on the boot drive (see section 8.4.1) and
loading the new driver automatically (see sections 8.4.2.1 and 8.4.2.2) or manually
(see section 8.4.2).
NOTE: You must have created a source code driver floppy disk (see section 8.2.3)
before installing or updating the driver.
8.4.1
Installing the Driver on the Boot Drive
NOTE: To install or update the qla2x00 driver, the following requirements must be
met.
■ For Red Hat Linux 6.2, you must have created the qla2x00 driver floppy
disk (see section 8.2.2).
■ The QLA22xx board must be installed in the system before installing
the qla2x00 driver.
■ The QLA22xx board must be the only boot device in the system during
qla2x00 driver installation.
Perform the following steps to install the qla2x00 driver on the boot drive.
1. Create a directory for the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) files unless it
already exists. For example:
# mkdir /home/qla2x00
2. Change the current directory to the QLogic Linux driver directory. For
example:
cd /home/qla2x00
3. Insert the floppy disk that contains the qla2x00 driver.
4. Copy the driver files to the directory created in step 2. For example:
mcopy a:qla2x00-x.xx-0-0.i386.rpm .
The period (.) at the end is required.
5. Do one of the following:
❑ To invoke the RPM and install the qla2x00 drivers for the first time, type:
# rpm -iv qla2x00-x.xx-0.i386.rpm
❑ To upgrade the existing qla2x00 drivers, type:
# rpm -iv --force qla2x00-x.xx-0.i386.rpm