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Scenario:

You have single or multiple drives using your motherboard IDE, SATA or internal software RAID and want to add a RAID controller to your system.
Your drives are connected to a RAID controller. You are either trying to use a different card or give it up for an onboard controller.

but you rather keep your current OS installation, applications and files. You require no new OS installtion. All you have to do is to connect the RAID controller to your motherboard and power up the system, install the drivers and introduce it to your OS and restart. Once the card is visible to the OS simply image your current operating system, create your RAID arrays and restore the image to the active partition of your array. You can now boot from the new controller without having to do anything else.

I tested this once with Ubuntu and it didn’t work. Not sure about different distributions, though.

I got around it by creating a new administrator account. Log on/off the new admin account and try the install task again.

If you’re getting the following error when trying to restart Apache server:
NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
Edit your ports.conf:
nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf
and comment out NameVirtualHost towards the top of your config file.

This should work considering all other settings are correct.

Start – Run – paste the following line there and hit OK:

%systemroot%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

This should bring up the hidden uninstaller.

Update: Drivers are included in vSphere 4.1.

Download the ISO with drivers from HERE.

Burn to a CD and insert in the drive. Logon to the console as root and mount:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
Browse to /mnt and find the file “INT-intel-lad-ddk-igb-1.3.19.12.1-offline_bundle-185976.zip”

Install the driver:
esxupdate --bundle=INT-intel-lad-ddk-igb-1.3.19.12.1-offline_bundle-185976.zip update
Reboot.