On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ken Teh wrote: Hi > I have had no problems with doing Redhat 7.1 kickstarts with an Adaptec > 29160. It's true that under 6.2, the driver on the boot image does not > support the 29160, but that's no longer true with the 7.1 boot images. > > Did you try adding the driverdisk directive to the kickstart script? I > vaguely remember trying a kickstart install of 6.2 on H/W with an Adaptec > 29160 and using the driver disk to add the updated aicxxxx driver. As far > as I recall, it worked! The problem is how to use the driver disk in 7.1 The documentation states that it should be copied in the local filesystem. How is it possible to do that in a brand new machine? Thanks in advance for any help > > Ken > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jeff CTR Vandenbussche wrote: > > > I have a similar situation. I have a RH6.2 kickstart installation, > > but we have recently changed H/W and the kickstart install pkg doesn't > > include the scsi driver that I need. I can do manual install using a > > driver disk, but how do I incorporate this into my kickstart install? > > I have tried putting the initrd.img(with the updated modules.cgz > > including the scsi driver (sym5c83xxx) and kernel from the manually > > installed system onto my kickstart floppy, but the system can't > > recognize the scsi. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff > > > > > > ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ > > Subject: Re: kickstarting RedHat 7.1 on a full scsci computer > > Author: Eric Doutreleau <Eric.Doutreleau@xxxxxxxxxxx> at INTERNET-ACT > > Date: 10/4/01 10:50 AM > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Eric GOUNOT wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I got a full scsi PC: > > > PIII-600, Adaptec 29160, HD IBM 9GO, 3COM 3C905 Network card, and an ide > > > CDROM (Nec Express 5800 TM1100). > > > I've kiskstarted it through the network whit RedHat 7.0 and bootnet.img (on > > > CD de luxe) and i've got no problem. > > > When i try to do the same thing, whit RH7.1 Kickstat bootnet.img, i got > > > this message : > > > "An error has occured: No valid device were found on which to create new > > > filesystem", and the installation failed > > > If i look on "ctrl-alt-F2", adaptev module is not up. if i uped it > > > (insmod), no error message but it doesn't up ! > > > > > > Does sbdy got an idea ? Please help > > > > > The problem is that the scsi module is not in the bootnet disk but in the > > driver disk. > > > > Then u have to use it > > The problem is that according to the documentation you have to put it > > on a partition on the local machine. > > > > Then it s not possible to use it to a brand new machine. > > > > Hope this help > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Eric Doutreleau I.N.T | Tel : +33 (0) 160764687 9 rue Charles Fourier | Fax : +33 (0) 160764321 91011 Evry France | email : Eric.Doutreleau@xxxxxxxxxxx
