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Cant install driver on Ubuntu 9.04

Hi,

Been searching for a while now and still need help (sorry for new thread)

Im installing Ubuntu Server 9.04 from a CD, the installer works fine until i need to get the drivers for my RAID card. (this is asked when detecting disk on installation)

I put the drivers onto a USB (MSDOS boot diskette)
mounted it by pressing ALT+F2 to get a terminal during the installation.
then copied the files from the USB to /tmp

When I try and run the driver from /tmp i get.

Code:

# sh preinst.sh



sh: 2.4: unknown operand

sh: 2.6 unknown operand

The disk you insert is for linux kernel 2.4/2.6

Error! Please change your floppy disk, the installation is under 2.6 Linux Kernel.

I've tried this on both 10.10, 10.04 installation disks and now 9.04.
The Driver is for 9.04 X86 & X64.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Quote:

sh: 2.4: unknown operand
sh: 2.6 unknown operand
The disk you insert is for linux kernal 2.4/2.6
Error! Please change your floppy disk, the installation is under 2.6 Linux Kernal.

I suspect that you need to carefully read the installation instructions, looking for the instructions for putting drivers on a floppy, then loading them from the floppy.

This is what the manual says, which i followed.

Code:

Type the following commands to mount floppy diskette:

# mount –t vfat /dev/sda1 /usbflash

# cp –r /usbflash /tmp/hptdd

# umount /usbflash



Unplug all USB storages from the USB port and then type:

# sh /tmp/hptdd/preinst.sh

Im not really sure what to do since i followed these steps.

you got the wrong kernel ? get a newer version of the driver.