Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller
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To install the driver as a module
1 Boot with the FreeBSD CD-ROM or diskette.
2 In the sysinstall menu, select Configure > Load KLD module.
Note: Immediately after the OS starts booting from the CD,
insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver,
twa.ko, into
the floppy drive. If you do not insert it immediately, sysinstall
may fail to recognize the floppy drive.
3 Load the driver from the floppy drive.
4 Run the FreeBSD installation and reboot.
For instructions on how to install FreeBSD, see the FreeBSD
website, at
http://www.freebsd.org/
5 Remove the floppy disk and the CD.
6 On reboot, escape to the loader menu.
Note: Once again, immediately after the OS starts booting,
insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver,
twa.ko, into
the floppy drive. If you do not insert it immediately, the loader
may fail to recognize the floppy drive.
7 At the loader prompt, run 'lsdev' to make sure the floppy drive
has been discovered.
8 Load the driver from the floppy. For example, if the floppy
drive is disk0, type
load disk0:twa.ko
9 Run 'boot'.
The system should now be able to boot.
10 After the system boots up, do the following:
a Create a directory for the floppy.
mkdir /floppy
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