Installing and uninstalling, General installation requirements, Binary rpm fc and fcoe driver kit – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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2. Installing and Uninstalling

General Installation Requirements

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2. Installing and Uninstalling

Emulex releases Linux binary RPMs that are digitally signed using the GNU Privacy

Guard (GPG) standard. This will allow certification of the contents of the RPMs and

verification that the contents have not been modified since they were created by

Emulex. The RPMs have been digitally signed by Emulex with a GPG private key that

is only held by Emulex. Instructions for creating the Emulex GPG public key file are

located on the Emulex website at:

http://www.emulex.com/downloads/linux-key.html

General Installation Requirements

Note: Before performing a firmware update, driver installation is required.

Prior to driver installation, follow these general requirements:

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Install a supported Emulex adapter in the system. Refer to the adapter's

installation manual for specific hardware installation instructions.

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Use a supported operating system. See the Emulex website for supported

operating systems.

Binary RPM FC and FCoE Driver Kit

The binary RPM FC and FCoE driver kit contains the following:

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A zipped tar file that includes the driver binary RPMs for a specific driver

version and Linux distribution.

Note: Use only officially-released Linux distribution kernels. The binary RPM

packages only support officially-released Linux distribution kernels,

and do not support pre-release distribution kernels.

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An installation script, elx_lpfc_install.sh, that installs by default the FC and

FCoE driver binary RPM that corresponds to the target system's architecture

and kernel memory variant.

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A README file that provides a description of the kit structure, its contents, and

distribution support scope.

Installing the Binary RPM FC and FCoE Driver Kit

Note: You must uninstall any FC driver kits that are not part of this distribution. For

example, you must uninstall any previous FC and FCoE driver kits that were

installed from the Emulex website before installing this driver kit. This

installation fails if a previous version of the FC and FCoE driver kit is detected.