How to rebuild an Anaconda initrd/kernel with updated drivers?

[Riggs, Ben]

Being an undergrad with no classes for the next couple weeks and plenty 
of time at work, I'm looking to find out what's behind door #1.

Ben

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> Only two ways I know of:
> 
> 1) Lots of work to rebuild with your nic drivers
> 2) put the drivers on the CD/Flash that you are using for the install
> and use dd to load them
> 
> If you are using PXEBoot, you've gotta go with #1
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Riggs, Ben
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:13 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: How to rebuild an Anaconda initrd/kernel with updated drivers?
> 
> We have new motherboards with onboard NICs which aren't recognized by
> the fedora 7 installer initrd/kernel. Naturally, not having a NIC makes
> using network drivers impossible. Anyone have the skinny, or a link?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
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