Jakarta wrote:
PXE isn't an option in my environment. I prefer keeping everything on an
NFS server and booting off the network. My interest is in rolling all the
drivers needed for the hardware we use into a single bootable kickstart
CD. Can this be done?
I don't care for the drvnet.img files etc. in
RH7.3. In looking at RH9 it appears as though they've done away with the
drvnet.img, so i'm assuming it has been rolled into the isolinux CD, but
it doesn't seem to work for RH7.3.
* James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) on [030925 10:23] thus spake:
You would be better off use PXE to boot the machines and making custom
initrd's that support your driver.. Check out this page:
http://www.puschitz.com/Kickstart.shtml
James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394
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Subject: using the isolinux from rh9 to install rh7.3?
Can I use the isolinux image from rh9 to install rh7.3? I'm doing my
install over NFS, Both the .isos and the ks.cfg files are on NFS.
When I tried it the isolinux cd just seem to hang when it was trying to
load stage2 (i think)? I'm trying to do this because I have a gigabit
network card and so I need to use 2 floppies to do an install and would
like to simplify it a bit.
thanks
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Jakarta -
Which gigabit ethernet card do you have? I got an image for a boot
floppy from HP's website which allows me
to install 7.3 on machines with Intel, and also Broadcom gigabit
hardware with only one floppy. You can
download it at:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/18988.html
I am also working on perfecting the process of customizing my own boot
floppies. So far, I have been able
to customize the image that my tftp server loads for PXE boots. That's
the nice thing about PXE, you are not
limited in size, and I didn't have to waste time writing to floppies as
I was debugging the process.
- Mark
