Hi all, I am having a similar problem. I am trying to create a lights-out installation environment for RH 7.1 on some Dell PE-1650 servers, dual CPU machines with Intel e1000 Pro network adapters. Unfortunately, the suggestion below does not appear to work for me. I am using a boot floppy based on the standard bootnet.img. I have added the e1000.o module to the /tmp directory in the initial ramdisk, as well as adding the appropriate lines to pcitable and modules.conf. When I boot with the command line "ks", it first presents me with a menu of drivers to try; when I choose the Intel 1000/PRO Gigabit driver, insmod fails with the incredibly enlightening error message "%m". :P Having to use the supplemental driver disk sort of defeats the purpose of the lights-out installation. Has anyone got an e1000-based machine to perform a succesful network install from a single floppy, and if so, how? I was thinking it might be worth it to try to make a new bootnet installation disk based on a more recent kernel, say the 2.4.9-31BOOT errata kernel. Is this likely to work? r. > > > Cool idea !! > > Can you sidestep any of those other steps below ? > > Cheers, Andy! > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Frans Lawaetz wrote: > > > If you put the e1000 module in the tmp directory *beforehand* (i.e., > > during the creation of the custom initrd.img) you are able to sidestep > > the extraction problems. > > > > I imagine this might solve other module issues. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Frans Lawaetz [mailto:frans.lawaetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > > To get the e1000 module onto the regular bootnet.img disk I did the > > following... > > > > First, the usual routine of gunzipping initrd.img, and then > > gunzip&cpio the modules.cgz included within. I removed a few > > networking modules that I didn't need, and added e1000.o that I took > > from the supplemental network driver disk. > > > I carefully copied and pasted the definitions from modinfo on the NIC > > driver disk to module-info on the bootnet.img disk .. and did the same > > for the pcitab file. > > > I then cpio'd, gzip'd everything back together and made myself > > a new boot floppy.
