Bill Nottingham wrote:
David Cantrell (dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
Driver update disks have changed, again. Now we put RPMs of kernel modules
on the update disk, so it's somewhat easier to maintain the contents of the
disk.
http://www.driverupdateprogram.com/
http://dup.et.redhat.com/ddiskit/
It's new as of RHEL 5.0 and evolving.
It looks a lot of bother for including a driver Red Hat didn't, prism54
in my case.
A quick look doesn't reveal a way to get firmware into the image.
I set out to do what I should have done instead of relying on (lack of)
memory about the topic. I'm running a RHEL5 clone.
yum list '*anaconda*'
Okay they're all installed.
rpm -qid anaconda
Not that one.
rpm -qid anaconda-runtime
Looks promising, what's at
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/
Oh, http://fedoraproject.org/
The particular computer I was going to use declined to power up after I
added the wireless card, so I'll find an alternative and install Linux
before putting it in place.
I assumed that I would find a prebuilt kernel module for the install
kernel (if not, then I'm well able to rebuild the correct kernel from
source, enabling the driver which is prism54).
The wireless NIC needs firmware, and I have that.
The solution David points out is fine for vendors and others who
regularly package drivers not included in the kernel source. Dell for
example.
What I was hoping for was more along the lines of
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disk.img bs=1024 count=1440
mkfs ...
mount -o loop ....
mkdir
tar or cpio to create an archive
vim to make some text files to describe the disk
cp to copy the firmware
vim (maybe) to make a script to load the firmware
umount
dd to copy the image.
That or a description enabling me to get there.
ps I think the wiki I found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda
should like to other source of information, including those documents
David mentioned.
Oh, the Wiki should be captured and packaged as anaconda-doc for each
release; I'm sceptical about its relevance to RHEL5 let alone earlier
releases.
... and may not work in the Fedora 9 beta.
Bill
Thanks Bill. Just the reassurance I wanted.
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