On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:24 +1000, john wrote: > Now, back to my problem. All I'm trying to do is remove the need to > insert the driver diskette by placing a copy of the driver disk's files > (module-info, modules.dep, modules.cgz pcitable) onto the DVD itself and > then telling anaconda to go looking for my drivers on the DVD rather > than prompting me for a diskette. > > The 7.3 manual says I can do this using the line > driverdisk hda --type=iso9660 > in my ks.cfg kickstart file. > > This is apparently supposed to be interpreted as 'go and look in the > root of the hda partition and you will find some drivers that you need > to load'. But it isn't. Unfortunately, what happens is that anaconda > doesn't appear to look where it's told, it therefore doesn't keep track > of my special 3ware drivers and in the end, doesn't rebuild the initrd > image needed by the smp kernel that gets loaded when I finally boot > drectly from the HDD. Hi John, is the image of your driverdisk on the root of your CD (hda) and called dd.img? As parameter mostly --type=vfat or ext2, which depends on the format of the dd.img, not the root-fs. That's at least my understanding, I'm not using it yet, could be coming later this week. Please keep me informed (on this list of course) with your successes - or not. Goodluck, Niels
