Red Hat Linux scsi driver Installation Procedures

Red Hat Linux SCSI Driver Installation Procedures

1. 
   Prepare the installation files
   

1. 
   Insert the “Linux Red-Hat 6.2 Installation Disk” in the floppy disk drive.
   
2. 
   Type “text”.
   
3. 
   Choose “custom install” (recommended).
   
4. 
   Make sure the root partition (lilo boot partition) is “dev/sdal”
   
5. 
   Make sure the /partition size < 1024Mbytes (New version of lilo can solve this problem).
   
6. 
   When you install packages, you must choose “kernel development & utilities”.
   

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  mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
  
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  cd /RedHat/RPMS
  
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  rpm -i kernel-source-2.2.14-5.0.i386.rpm)
  
1. 
   After installing Red-Hat 6.2, please insert “Linux Red-Hat 6.2 Boot Disk” and reboot the system.
   
2. 
   This completes the installation of installing Red-Hat 6.2 and you can now login to Red-Hat 6.2, but you still cannot boot the system from your SCSI HDD now! Please go to next step.
   

2. 
   Installing SCSI Drivers for Linux
   

2. 
   mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
   
3. 
   cp /mnt/floppy/sym1.6b-2.2.14.tar.gz /<your own directory>; You can assign your own directory such as “/Temp”.
   
4. 
   tar zxvf sym1.6b-2.2.14.tar.gz ; This step will create a new directory named “2.2.14”.
   
5. 
   cd ./2.2.14
   
6. 
   Modify “script-2.2.14” via vi, pico, etc.
   

2. 
   Execute script ./script-2.2.14
   
3. 
   cd /usr/src/linux
   
4. 
   make menuconfig
   
5. 
   You will see a menu and try to modify as the following :
   

NCR53C8xx SCSI support: Excluded ( )

SYM53C8xx SCSI support: Built-in (*)

tagged queue depth : 4

2. 
   make dep
   
3. 
   make bzImage
   
4. 
   make modules
   
5. 
   make modules_install
   
6. 
   cd /boot
   
7. 
   cp /usr/src/linux/System.map System.map-2.2.14-5.0 (Overwrite the original file)
   
8. 
   cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 (Overwrite the original file)
   
9. 
   cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinux vmlinux-2.2.14-5.0 (Overwrite the original file)
   
10. 
    lilo -v -v –v
    
11. 
    cd /etc
    
12. 
    Edit “lilo.conf” to change default boot item to be “linux-up”.
    
13. 
    sync;sync;sync
    
14. 
    shutdown -r now ( reboot )
    

Note: Item “linux” will use the old kernel without SCSI driver. In fact, you can erase the whole section of “linux” boot settings in the configuration file --- lilo.conf.