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6 – Solaris SPARC Driver Installation
Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver from the QLogic Web Site
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1. Log on to the system as a superuser.
2. Download the driver package from the QLogic Web site (www.qlogic.com
) to a
directory on the Solaris machine’s hard disk.
3. At the command prompt, change the directory (cd) to the directory where the
file was downloaded.
4. At the command prompt, type:
uncompress ./qla2300_pkg.Z
5. Step 4 produces a file in the same directory called qla2300_pkg.
6. At the command prompt in the directory where the file was uncompressed, type:
pkgadd -d ./qla2300_pkg
7. You are prompted to select a driver package. For example:
The following packages are available:
1 QLA2300 QLogic QLA2300 driver
(sparc) Solaris, Rev=X.XX
2 QLSDMLIB QLogic SDM Library
(sparc) Solaris 7-8-9, Rev=X.XX
3 QLSDMLIB6 QLogic SDM Library
(sparc) Solaris 2.6, Rev=X.XX
Select package(s) you wish to process (or ’all’
to process all packages). (default: all)
[?,??,q]:
NOTE: The revision number, X.XX, indicates the version of the driver.
8. Type the number associated with the Solaris SPARC version on your system.
Separate the numbers by pressing the SPACEBAR.
a. Type 1 to install the driver package.
b. If you are installing the storage networking industry association (SNIA)
application programming interface (API) libraries, type 2 or 3.
For example, type the following to install the driver and SDM library for a
Solaris 8 system:
Select package(s) you wish to process (or ’all’
to process all packages). (default: all)
[?,??,q]: 1 2
Press ENTER to continue.