Put the diver files on a (USB) floppy diskette.
Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette In the following document, the floppy diskette stands for the floppy diskette which is inserted into the on-board floppy controller, the USB floppy diskette stands for the floppy diskette inserted into the USB floppy controller, the USB diskette stands for USB flash disk and USB harddisk, the USB storage stands for USB diskette and USB floppy controller. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the system. If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from floppy or CDROM.
Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence. Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from floppy or CDROM, and then from SCSI.
Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot. Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR174x controller BIOS will be loaded firstly. Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physically attached to RR174x controller, from your system.
2 Installing Ubuntu Linux on RR174x controller If you would like to install Ubuntu Linux onto drives attached to RR174x controller, please perform the following operations: Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR174x controller, you can use RR174x BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks. Last updated on November 13, 2008Ģ Table of Contents 1 Overview Installing Ubuntu Linux on RR174x controller.1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation.1 Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings.1 Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette.1 Step 4 Install Ubuntu Server Linux Installing RR174x driver on an Existing System.5 Step 1 Obtain and install the Driver Module.5 Step 2 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Monitoring the Driver Updating the Driver Installing RAID Management Software Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update.6 iģ 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 174x Controller on Ubuntu Linux system. 1 RocketRAID 174x SATA Controller Ubuntu Linux Installation Guide Version 1.0 Copyright 2008 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.