Adaptec 6405E - Installing the Driver and an Operating System; Driver Disk Creation and Prerequisites

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Installing the Driver and an
Operating System
In this chapter...
Before You Begin .................................................................................................................... 60
Creating a Driver Disk ........................................................................................................... 60
Installing with Windows ........................................................................................................ 61
Installing with Red Hat Linux 5............................................................................................. 62
Installing with Red Hat Linux 6 or Fedora Linux................................................................. 62
Installing with SuSE Linux..................................................................................................... 63
Installing with Debian Linux................................................................................................. 63
Installing with Ubuntu Linux................................................................................................ 65
Installing with Solaris............................................................................................................. 67
Installing with VMware ESX 4............................................................................................... 67
Installing with VMware ESXi 5 ............................................................................................. 68
Installing with FreeBSD .........................................................................................................71
This chapter explains how to install your Adaptec RAID controller driver and an operating
system on a bootable array (see page 54).
To install the driver on an existing operating system, see page 72.