RE: RHEL5 kickstart needs to mount cdrom in postinst

["Martin Steinmann" <msteinmann vesbridge com>]

> >
> > Is there a similarly elegant way to add a driver disk image?  I am
still
> > struggling embedding an additional RAID driver into the boot CD. I
> > suppose I need to update the initial initrd file (using mkinitrd)
and
> > then tell Anaconda to load the driver image during stage2. Can the
> > driver disk image be placed somewhere into the tree similar to the
> > updates.img?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --martin
> >
> >
> >
> Yes.
> 
> Look for the driverdisk option at
> https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-
> manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html
> 
> That option is in RHEL4 & 5 that I know of.

Yes, I looked at this and tried several options. The problem is that I
do not have a network during installation (no ftp, http or nfs
available) and therefore the driver disk image needs to be in the tree
on the CD. Also, the HD is empty when I start.

--martin 


> 
> Sincerely,
> Jason
>