On 03/04/2014 02:31 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Kenny Noe wrote:
>> My apologies.... what is top post and how am I doing this?
>>
>> I thought I was just replying to the mailing list... Hit reply and type
>> my message. (I'm such a noobie)
>>
>> I did find dd files that have the driver update but am lost on trying to
>> get these into the install. Sorry but I don't understand what you are
>> saying.
>>
>> I appreciate your willingness to help and all the others that have
>> replied.
>> My apologies for being frustrating. I'll have to read more.
>
> You just top posted, again. #0: fuck Outlook, and anything like it.
> FOLLOW, or intercollate, with the responses to your email. Follow, as in
> put your response AT THE BOTTOM, of the email, not the top.
>
> Just the way I'm responding to the email, above. Think of it as a
> conversation - you know what someone's said, *before* you respond. Top
> posting means I have no idea what you're responding to - you're not
> talking to someone in person.... And for anyone coming into an email
> thread late... I, and I think most folks, have *zero* intention of going
> to the bottom of an email which contains everything said in the thread,
> esp. with nothing edited out, and reading down a message, then paging up
> to read the response, then paging up *again* to read the next response.
>
> That's a M$ asinine introduction, and I despise it, since it makes it
> incredibly difficult to follow what's going on.
>
> I dunno, though - just dd'ing in the driver isn't going to work, if you
> mean that you dd'd the driver itself in, or was there an .rpm? If the
> latter, you need to find out what it does when it installs - where the
> actual driver's supposed to go, in what subdirectory, and then, of course,
> the last step would be to insmod it, and *then* rebuild the initrd so that
> it's included on boot.
>
> mark
Google for "anaconda driverdisk", and you will find many write-ups on
howto supply drivers during installation.
Thomas
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