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Creating a Driver Diskette for Solaris
7-2 PCI Disk Array Controller Drivers Manual
Creating a Driver Diskette for Solaris
Before installing the Mylex Disk Array Controller Drivers for Solaris,
a Mylex MDAC Supplemental Driver Diskette (MDAC Supplemental
Diskette) must be created according to the instructions in Appendix A,
“Creating PCI Driver Installation Diskettes.”
This diskette will be used in both the primary and secondary installation
processes and when updating a previously installed driver wherever
instructed.
How to use the Mylex Supplemental
Driver Diskette
You can use the Mylex Supplemental Driver Diskette you just created in the
previous section in one of two ways:
• To use new drivers to install or upgrade the Solaris operating
environment on a system with new hardware (primary installation), or
• To add new drivers to support (update) new hardware on an already
installed booted system (secondary installation).
Installing Solaris Using the Solaris Device
Configuration Assistant Diskette for a
Primary Installation
The steps below describe how to use drivers on the Solaris Device
Configuration Assistant Diskette
1
for a Primary Installation to install Solaris
(Intel Platform Edition) on a new system.
These instructions assume that you are installing Solaris 7 onto a x86 system
using the Mylex MDAC driver.
Use the appropriate Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette as the
boot diskette.
1. Insert the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette into your
1. The Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Diskette is a boot
diskette provided by Sun Microsystems.