Sun Ultra 27 Workstation Windows Operating System Installation Guide

About Drivers

This section describes the types of drivers required for your workstation and when you would install them.

The OS itself or Sun provides drivers for your workstation. Some of these drivers need to be installed during OS installation and some of these can be installed and updated after OS installation. In some cases, you might need to prepare the drivers before you install the OS. Most of these drivers are found on the OS distribution media, the Tools and Drivers DVD, or from the windows.zip file that is downloadable from the Sun software download site.

In general, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 2008 OSs include drivers in the OS itself.

Some of the drivers for Windows XP are not included in the OS. You need to copy the drivers from the Tools and Drivers CD to diskette and then load the drivers during OS installation by pressing F6. , If you do not load the mass storage drivers, the workstation does not recognize the hard disk. After OS installation, you can load the Intel Storage Manager and configure RAID 0 or RAID 1. You can also use the Windows XP reburn CD to install the OS and drivers.

Table 1–1 Sun Ultra 27 Drivers


Driver	OS	When Installed	How Installed	Notes
Mass storage	Vista	During OS installation		Included in the OS distribution media.
	Windows Server 2008	During OS installation		Included in the OS distribution media.
	Windows XP	During OS installation	Prepare drivers ahead of time; installed through a local floppy disk , USB flash disk, or CD/DVD	Included in the Tools and Drivers CD; see Chapter 6, Installing Windows XP.
Windows Imaging Format (WIM) files	Vista Windows Server 2008	During OS installation	Windows Deployment Services (WDS)	You can install many drivers into a WIM image and install them using WDS; see Chapter 8, Incorporating Sun Ultra 27 Workstation Drivers Into a WIM Image (Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Server 2008 Only).
NVIDIA Graphics and Realtek Audio	Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows XP	After OS installation		If you use a WIM image (Vista/2008 only), these drivers are installed during landing of the image (see Chapter 8).