Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
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2.
Boot the system form SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 disk1 bootable CD.
3.
When you see the boot menu on the screen, press F5 and select Yes.
4.
Press Enter to continue the installation.
5.
Insert the driver disk to the floppy, select sda: Floppy and OK to load the
SAS RAID daughter board driver from the driver diskette.
6.
After loading the driver, select OK and Back to return to the installation.
7.
With SAS RAID Daughter Board and MegaRAID SAS 8204ELP, you are
required to manually create three partitions: “/boot”, “swap” and a root
“/” partitions during installation. You will also need to convert Device
Name to Device ID with its associated mount point while creating each
partition.
The Step 8 ~ step16 below will instruct you on how to create these three
required partitions and how to convert Device Name into Device ID.
NOTE: Normally, a file system to mount is identified in /etc/fstab by the Device
Name. This identification can be changed so the file system to mount is found
by searching for a Device ID or Volume label.
8.
At Installation Setting, Click Partitioning .
9.
Select Create Custom Partition Setup option box, and click Next
10.
Select Custom Partitioning (for experts) option box, and then click Next
11.
To create a partition, click Create at the bottom and then select Primary
Partition option box.
12.
In creating the “/boot” partition, you need to fill in the ‘Mount Point’
with “/boot”. In addition, you will need to enter the size of the partition.
Set it to ‘+1GB’ which is plenty. Then click the tab Fstab Option.
13.
You will see Device Name is the default option in the section labeled
‘Mount in /etc/fstab by’. Then change the Fstab options to Device ID and
click OK at the bottom.
14.
In creating the “swap” partition, please follow step described in step11 –
step13. For the “swap” partition, you need to additionally change File
system from ‘Reiser’ to ‘Swap’ in the combo box. And don’t forget to fill
in the ‘Mount Point’ with “swap”. The typical size of the partition is
‘+1GB’.
15.
In creating a root “/” partition, please follow step described in step11 –
step13. and to fill in the ‘Mount Point’ with “/”. Typitically, assign rest of
available driver space for the root partition “/”.
16.
Once all the partitions are created, click Finish to proceed with normal
installation.
17.
If you have installed the ATI FireGL V5200 in the system, you need to