On Friday 29 July 2005 01:45, Dan Carpenter wrote: > (On the topic of driver disks). > > I've not found really good documentation on driver disks. To create > dd.img do you just create a normall driver disk and `cat /dev/fd0 > > dd.img`? Loading driver disk image on a disk partition is not documented. But anaconda seems to have the code to do that. This is why I tried that. > I've been using FC3. From the source in driverdisk.c it looks like it > loop back mounts the image and when I try that it seems to find the files, > but my installer segfaults. Anyway, If we want to load driver disk, we can create driver disk (not driver disk *image* on a disk partition) as you mentioned. And we can load driver disk image over NFS, FTP, and HTTP. So the problem I reported is minor thing. dd=http://path/to/dd.img dd=ftp://path/to/dd.img dd=nfs:host:/dd.img > The driver disk works when you use a floppy. > > thanks, > dan > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Akinobu Mita wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I tried to load driver disk image on a partition in USB storage device. > > (/dev/sda1:dd.img) But It failed. > > > > Steps to Reproduce: > > 1. create driver disk image (dd.img) > > 2. put dd.img on USB storage device partition (/dev/sda1) > > 3. start FC4 installer with "linux dd" > > 4. select driver disk source as /dev/sda1 and choose the file "dd.img" > > > > Actual results: > > > > anaconda went wrong stage. > > anaconda displays: > > > > ---| Insert Driver Disk |--- > > Insert your driver disk into /dev/sda and press "OK" to continue. > > > > Expected results: > > > > Successfully load from driver disk image. > > > > > > I think below patch fixes this problem. but it is untested. > > > > --- anaconda-10.3.0.7/loader2/driverdisk.c.orig 2005-07-27 18:25:13.000000000 +0900 > > +++ anaconda-10.3.0.7/loader2/driverdisk.c 2005-07-27 18:25:56.000000000 +0900 > > @@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ int loadDriverFromMedia(int class, modul > > break; > > } > > stage = DEV_LOAD; > > + break; > > } > > > > case DEV_INSERT: { > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > > >
