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Creating A FreeBSD Driver Diskette
You will need a driver diskette if you are going to be installing FreeBSD on a unit or drive managed by a 3ware RAID controller card which will become the boot unit and for which your version of FreeBSD does not have a built-in driver.
To create a driver diskette
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mkdir /floppy
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newfs /dev/fd0 (assuming fd0 is the floppy disk drive)
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mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /floppy
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mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom (assuming acd0 is the CD-ROM drive).
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cp /cdrom/packages/drivers/freebsd/6.3/x86_64/twa.ko /floppy

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