Re: driverdisk and include

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but i need network card driver disk so i cant add dd=ftp:// since there
is no ftp since there is no network in the kernel!!!!

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> You can add the dd line to boot: line, just make sure you don't exceed
> 255 characters total with all your other options included. 
> 
> 
> Chip Shabazian
> VP ; Sr. Consultant - System Engineering
> Bank of America
> E&O OS Services -- Linux
> e: chip.shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> p: 925 692-7000
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Farkas Levente
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:52 AM
> To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: driverdisk and include
> 
> hi,
> i'd like to put together a few kickstart file. there are common part of
> them like common packages and directives. so i put them in a separate
> file and include them. but i want to do this from a pxe boot. i already
> find how can i retrive include file from the %pre script to be able to
> include them. but my problem is that i need to add a driverdisk to each
> kickstart file since our server use r1000 network card which is not in
> the current anaconda kernel. so my question
> - what stage are run during a kickstart pxe boot?
> - what information should have to be available in each stage?
> - can i put the
>   driverdisk --source=ftp://.../r1000-2.6.18_8.img
>   line into a common included file or should it have to be in the main
>   file?
> - is it documented anywhere or just i'm not able to find it?
> thank you for your help in advance.
> 


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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"


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