I had the exact same issue (Dell Poweredge 2850), vendor support required
RHEL3u1.
You can load the driver disk from within the kickstart file (even via
network! YAY!!)
>From /usr/share/doc/anaconda-9.1.1/kickstart-docs.txt
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driverdisk (optional)
Driver diskettes can be used during kickstart installations. You
need to copy the driver diskettes's contents to the root
directory
of a partition on the system's hard drive. Then you need to use
the driverdisk command to tell the installation program where to
look for the driver disk.
driverdisk <partition> [--type=<fstype>]
Alternatively, a network location can be specified for the driver
diskette:
driverdisk --source=ftp://path/to/dd.img
driverdisk --source=http://path/to/dd.img
driverdisk --source=nfs:host:/path/to/img
<partition>
Partition containing the driver disk.
--type=
File system type (for example, vfat or ext2).
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I believe the downloadable drivers from Dell come as dd images already,
and instructs you to use dd or rawwrite to create the floppy.
If you have the driver on floppy, use dd in reverse to create an image file
from the floppy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Tran [mailto:vectorz2@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: How to add raid and nic driver to Kickstart beginning
>
>
> Yes, definitely. We didn't have any issues w/ U4, but the problem is
> the Dynamo application that we're using at this time they do not
> support it running on U4. The highest revision they support is U1.
> :(
>
> On 5/6/05, Daniel Segall <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'd recommend trying RHES3 U4. I know that prior to U3 some
> of my Dell's
> > SCSI drivers were not present yet. Just a thought that
> might save you the
> > extra work of adding your drivers to the image.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> >
> > > I read that I'm supposed to pass a 'dd' command at the linux boot
> > > prompt in order to add in 3rd party raid and nic drivers
> that aren't
> > > supported by the kernel.
> > >
> > > I am kickstarting RH Enterprise 3v1 and it doesn't
> support my Dell 220
> > > Raid. So how do I go about automating it so that I don't have to
> > > insert a driver disk at the beginning of the kickstart
> for the raid
> > > and nic drivers?
> > >
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