driverdisk and include

[John Summerfield]

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> You can add the dd line to boot: line, just make sure you don't exceed
> 255 characters total with all your other options included. 

> 
> hi,
> i'd like to put together a few kickstart file. there are common part of
> them like common packages and directives. so i put them in a separate
> file and include them. but i want to do this from a pxe boot. i already
> find how can i retrive include file from the %pre script to be able to
> include them. but my problem is that i need to add a driverdisk to each
> kickstart file since our server use r1000 network card which is not in
> the current anaconda kernel. so my question
> - what stage are run during a kickstart pxe boot?
> - what information should have to be available in each stage?
> - can i put the
>   driverdisk --source=ftp://.../r1000-2.6.18_8.img
>   line into a common included file or should it have to be in the main
>   file?
> - is it documented anywhere or just i'm not able to find it?
> thank you for your help in advance.
> 
I'm sure it's documented, and I'm sure I've read it. Did you read the 
RHEL documentation? Fedora?

I prefer http installs, I think I get better logs. Check your after you 
do a kickstart and see what files it's looking for. It might already be 
looking for a driver disk.

Read the recent (still-running?) hints and tricks thread for my 
favourite technique for creating ks files. It's another reason to prefer 
http.




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