Yeah, I need to actually figure out how to rebuild an installation CD to
use them, or just dump them on a CD-R, because I pretty much can't get
any of the old FDD's to work, on any of the ancient machines I see
around here.
Peter
David Booth wrote:
For Centos4.4 I've got the 586 and 686 drivers on 2 floppies so far -
recipe follows... Hope this helps someone.
I'll try this on my HP and Acer, neither of which will install without
intervention. I'll post part 2 of the recipe if it works out.
# recipe part 1 - make the driver disks using
#http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy-Megaraid-Drivers.html
# modified for Centos4.4 as described in this thread
#http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html
#
# Using Centos4.4Final i386 Disk 1 of 4
#
# START
# Install Centos4.4 disk 1 of 4 minimal on an old system
# with floppy and PCI HD and net access
mkdir /usr/src/software
cd /usr/src/software
wget http://www.tuxyturvy.com/files/megaraid2.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/src/megaraid
cd /usr/src/megaraid
tar jxvfp /usr/src/sofware/megaraid2.tar.bz2
yum install gcc
yum install kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i586
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules
#
# copy megaraid.ko to a floppy and label it megaraid-586
#
mformat a:
mount /media/floppy
cp /usr/src/megaraid.ko /media/floppy
umount /media/floppy
#
# then clean out the kernel-devel...to make way for the 686 version
rpm -e kernel-devel
yum install kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL.i686
#
cd ../usr/src
mv megaraid megaraid-586
mkdir megaraid
cd megaraid
tar jxvfp /usr/src/sofware/megaraid2.tar.bz2
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules
#
# then copy megaraid.ko to a floppy and label it megaraid-686
mformat a:
mount /media/floppy
cp /usr/src/megaraid.ko /media/floppy
umount /media/floppy
#
# Take the floppies to the scsi system and follow recipe part 2
# I'll post that if it works out.
--
Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com>
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