We actually HAVE to do this. The original boot disk images do not
support the newer Intel or Broadcom NICs on servers or workstations.
The best way to get updated drivers in both the main image and the boot
diskette is to use buildinstall and remake the floppies.
Also, when your boot diskette does not match your installed kernel,
stuff gets populated in /lib/modules for the diskette version of the
kernel. When the system reboots, kudzu asks a ton of questions. If
your boot diskette kernel and install kernel match, this is fixed.
/Brian/
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:39, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:32:11PM -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > We have a heavily customized Red Hat 7.3-based distro. We use
> > buildinstall / mk-images.i386 to remake our boot diskettes for each
> > errata kernel that is released (the boot diskettes match the kernel we
> > are installing via kickstart).
>
> I've found it better to *not* do this -- just stick with the original boot
> kernels. You can still *install* the updated kernel....
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