Adaptec 3405 - Installing on VMware; Installing on FreeBSD

Chapter 8: Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System ● 66
5 Start the driver installer:
./install.sh -i
6 Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk.
7 Continue with Managing Your Storage Space on page 67.
Installing on VMware
Note: The embedded driver provided by VMware should be suitable for most applications. If an
updated driver is needed, use the following procedure.
To install the driver on VMware:
1 Start your computer, then insert the driver disk.
2 At the console screen of the VMware server, mount the Adaptec RAID Controller
Installation CD:
mount –r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
3 Install the module RPM:
rpm -i --force VMware-3.5-64607-esx-drivers-scsi-aacraid-1.1.5-2457.i586.rpm
Note: The rpm version string may differ for your VMware distribution.
4
Follow the on-screen instructions to save the boot image and run the vmware-mkinitrd
command manually.
5 Reboot your computer and remove the driver disk.
Note:
Currently, the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI is not supported on VMware. To create and
manage arrays, you must connect to the VMware machine from a remote GUI or use the
ARCCONF utility. See page 69 for more information.
Installing on FreeBSD
To install the driver on FreeBSD:
1 Start your computer.
2 Insert and mount the driver disk:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
3 Copy the driver package to the /tmp directory:
cp /mnt/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz /tmp
4 Install the driver package:
pkg_add /tmp/aac-02.00.00-x.tgz
5 Reboot your computer, then remove the driver disk.