I was able to take the directory with all the driver stuff in, put it and only it onto a thumb drive and do dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=raid.img I put it on a thumb drive because dd seems only to take devices not directories. Do you know how to make an img from a directory? Anyway I could access it via --driver source=http://192.168.5.18/raid.img (when I put it there). My KS file can be cdrom:/config/ks.cfg to get it right from the install disk. Doesn't seem to work with the driver disk though. Is that true? I tried --source=cdrom:/addon/raid.img where I placed it when I built the ISO image but when I installed it still said "do you have a driver disk?" (which means it couldn't find it). -----Original Message----- From: Shabazian, Chip [mailto:chip.shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:15 PM To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart' Subject: RE: driver The driverdisk directive uses a disk image. If you can put the drivers on a floppy, then use dd to create an image of the floppy, that is what you reference. Also, you don't NEED a physical disk, you can do this all with loopback devices mounted, but if you don't know how to do that, just use a physical floppy so you can test it as well. Chip -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:41 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: driver -----Original Message----- From: Jos Vos [mailto:jos@xxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:53 AM To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart' Subject: Re: driver On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:48:10PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > We have a special machine that, when you try to install CentOS on it, > says there are no hard drives. The vendor gave us a zip file which we > unzip and then do a "linux dd" to have it ask us for a driver disk which > we then install. > > We would like to rebuild the Linux install DVD and CDS (which I know how > to do) with this driver there that gets automatically found during > installation somehow (probably via a kickstart file) or at the minimum > give the user a menu of drivers with this one in it, and the user knows which > to pick. > > Is this possible? *If* the driverdisk works, yuou can address it in kickstart: driverdisk --source=http://host/path/to/dd.img (or ftp or nfs source paths, just like you specify a kickstart file on the boot prompt). ========================== The files they gave us, and that worked when we just inserted the memory stick and it found it, are listed below. I pleaced them into a directory called raiddisk. Can I just specify this directory (like cdrom:/addon/raiddisk or do I have to put a filename after raiddisk? These are the files: modules.alias modules.pcimap replace_ahci_readme.txt disk-info modules.cgz pci.ids replace_ahci.sh modinfo modules.dep pcitable rhdd My question is can I say driverdisk --source=cdrom:/addon/raiddrive/ in isolinux.cfg or do I have to say driverdisk --source=cdrom:/addon/raiddrive/SOMEFILE and if the second is true, what should SOMEFILE be? I have the files in a subdirectory under the CentOS4.5 directory where I succesfully made Centos installs before doing other stuff. It is in a subdir called addon/raiddrive _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
