Compiling iteraid driver for use at installation

[Jay Turner]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:02:56PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> So my questions are:
> 
> - If i install FC1 on a non-RAID hard disk in the same system, the
> iteraid driver i built from a running system works fine.  So there must
> be something different about the installer kernel and the runtime
> kernel.  What is it?
> 
> - If i assuming rightly that the installation kernel doesn't use
> kernel versioning, how can i compile a module that will make the
> module correctly for use in the installer?  I've gone through the "make
> mrproper, make config, make dep, make" routine on the default kernel,
> and i've come up with the same result.
> 
> - If that is not likely the problem, is there another way i can get my
> system upgraded?  I've heard yum can actually do OS upgrades - is this
> possible for going from RHL9 to FC1?

Have a look at the Device Driver Update Disk stuff which Doug Ledford has
put together.  It can be found at http://people.redhat.com/dledford.  This
will explain how to create a driver disk which is utilized as part of the
installation process, which sounds like is just what you need.

- jkt

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