User`s guide

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Section 13
Solaris SPARC Driver Installation
(QL2300)
13.1
Introduction
This section provides instructions for installing the Solaris SPARC driver in an
already installed Solaris SPARC operating system.
The latest version of the Solaris SPARC driver is available on the QLogic Web site
(www.qlogic.com
). The files in the driver package cannot be read nor installed from
a DOS environment. Be sure to review the README.TXT file for both new and
changed information.
To install the driver from a CD-ROM, see section 13.3. To install the driver from the
QLogic Web site, see section 13.4. If you are installing the driver from another
media, for example, a floppy disk, transfer the qla2300.Z file to a temporary directory
on the machine where the driver is to be installed, then continue with step 4 in
section 13.4.
13.2
Pre-installation Requirements
Before you install the Solaris driver, uninstall any existing QLA2300 driver using the
pkgrm utility.
NOTE:
■
If you are uninstalling Solaris driver version 4.07 or later, the Solaris pkgrm
utility creates a backup copy of the qla2300.conf configuration file in the
/kernel/drv directory.
■
If you are uninstalling a driver version before 4.07, QLogic recommends
that you manually create a backup copy of the qla2300.conf configuration
file.
■
To upgrade from qla2300 driver version 4.11 (and earlier) to qla2300 driver
version 4.12 (and above), you must remove the appropriate qla2300 driver
package before installing the new one, even though the package name
has been changed and may not appear to be conflicting.
qla2300 driver versions 4.11 (and earlier) have the following package
names:
❑
QLA2300-1 (Solaris 2.6)
❑
QLA2300-2 (Solaris 2.7)
❑
QLA2300-3 (Solaris 2.8 and 9)