Re: updates.img

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On 1/6/06, Alexander Chuzhoy <achuzhoy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> while installing fedora4 with kickstart (from NFS or HTTP server) I face
> sometimes cases when NIC is unsupported,thus I'm unable to contact the files
> on remote server.
> I used to solve this with adding the driver to initrd.img.
> Lately I was pointed to the file updates.img .
> I have no idea where to take updates.img file from or how to create it. All
> I know is that it suppose to be placed under "base" directory in
> Fedora/RedHat tree.

You can solve most driver problems by putting updated drivers into
updates.img, but you can't fix NIC problems that way, since the
updates.img will be downloaded over the network if you are doing
network installs.

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