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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Shared resource trees
  4. Managing shared resource trees
  5. Adding software to a shared resource tree
  6. Adding software to a UNIX or Linux SRT
  7. Installing device drivers into Linux SRTs
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

Installing device drivers into Linux SRTs

To add or update device drivers in a Linux SRT, use the following procedure.

To install device drivers into Linux SRTs

  1. Select Modify an existing SRT option under the main menu and provide name of the SRT to be modified.
  2. Choose the option Install additional patches/drivers.

    The following appears:

    The following additional packages are available to install:
         1. Install/update kernel drivers.
         2. Install a Linux Update/Service Pack.
         3. None of the above, leave unchanged.
    
    Enter your selection [3] :
    

    Select the appropriate option.

Choose option 1 to add additional Linux kernel drivers (.o, .ko) files into the SRT. This option can be used to add the drivers which are not present into the Linux installation media by default and need to be loaded during BMR restoration.

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