[nflug] Making Red Hat driver disks.

[Dennis Ruzeski]

In a perfect world, it would be to complete the installation and then
to use devices attached to boot from.

I'll check those links.

Thanks!

--Dennis



On Feb 13, 2008 12:36 PM, Darin Perusich
<Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> Does the system need this controller to complete the installation or is
> it a nice to have? Normally you'll just create an RPM of the driver and
> add it to your installation sources and it can be included during the
> install. This would be the case if it wasn't required for the
> installation. If it's required for the installation then things start
> getting a little more custom, i.e. custom installation cd's and initrd
> images.
>
> I wasn't able to find anything RH specific but these references may be
> helpful.
>
> http://www.suse.de/~ug/
> http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Third_party_drivers
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2004-June/042716.html
>
>
> Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> > Greetings, group-
> >
> > I'm in a position where I need to be able to create a driver disk for
> > RHEL 4 and 5 so that a controller without a driver in the kernel can
> > get installed and boot. I'm having a hell of a hard time finding
> > anything about creation of these disks. Does anyone have any insight
> > or a link to a website that outlines this process?
> >
>
> --
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corporation
> 395 Youngs Rd.
> Williamsville, NY 14221
> Phone: 716-633-3463
> Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
>
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