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Promise FastTrak Series for Linux Red Hat 7.2 Installation Guide

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(1)Create the driver disk – Extract the contents of the tgz file onto a formatted floppy disk under Linux OS called FastTrak Driver Disk.
(2)Start the RedHat Linux Installation with CD ROM booting.\
(3)At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux ..." installation screen, a prompt labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the screen.
(4)Please press TAB key and append parameters:
linux ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0 expert
(5)At the "Devices" dialog box, insert the FastTrak Driver Disk in the floppy drive and then select "OK" or "Yes".
(6)When the Boot Loader Configuration menu is displayed, please type parameters in the Kernel parameters field:
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0
(7)Continue with the installation as normal.
(8)Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 when installation at the "Congratualations" menu.
(9) Insert the FastTrak Driver Disk floppy, Issue commands to load FastTrak driver.
#mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy or #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
#cd /mnt/floppy
#./setup-ft
(10) Choose your selection here, after FastTrak driver setup successful. Please Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 and click "Exit" button to finish installation.
(11)After system rebooting, there might be two options shows at the screen as:
Linux
Linux UP
Please choose Linux UP if your CPU configuration is single-CPU. (UP means Uniprocessor=Single CPU)
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