[nflug] Making Red Hat driver disks.

[Darin Perusich]

That's going to be a bit more challenging. What kind of hardware are we
talking about?

Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-633-3463
Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com