User`s guide

13 – Solaris SPARC Driver Installation
Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from a CD-ROM
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Checks within the package installation will terminate the new driver installation
if a pervious version of the driver package is found.
For additional information, please review the latest Solaris README.TXT file,
available on the QLogic web site (www.qlogic.com
).
13.3
Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from a CD-ROM
Perform the following steps to install the Solaris SPARC driver from a CD-ROM to
your system.
NOTE: To install the QLA2300 driver, you must have superuser privileges.
1. Log on to the system as superuser.
2. Create a temporary directory where you can copy the driver.
3. Change the directory (cd) to the CD-ROM mount point (usually /cdrom, but the
location varies. Ask your system administrator for the specific directory).
4. Change the directory (cd) to the Solaris directory.
5. Copy (cp) the qla2300_pkg.Z file from the CD-ROM to the temporary directory
created in step 2.
6. Change the directory (cd) to the temporary directory created in step 2.
7. At the command prompt, type:
uncompress ./qla2300_pkg.Z
8. Step 7 produces a file in the same directory called qla2300_pkg.
9. At the command prompt, type:
pkgadd -d ./qla2300_pkg
10. Continue with step 7 in section 13.4.
13.4
Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from the QLogic Web Site
Perform the following steps to download the Solaris SPARC driver from the web to
your hard disk, then install the driver on your system.
NOTE: To install the QLA2300 driver, you must have superuser privileges.
1. Log on to the system as a superuser.
2. Download the driver package from the QLogic Web site (www.qlogic.com
) to a
directory on the Solaris machine’s hard disk.
3. At the command prompt, change the directory (cd) to the directory where the
file was downloaded.