How do I install a NIC driver image from the CD & a kickstart file?
Pablo Iranzo Gómez
Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 11:50:25 UTC 2008
It's the driver for the network card... so installer cannot reach
network to download it as has no network support yet ;)
Regards
Pablo
El lun, 03-03-2008 a las 13:40 +0200, Rudi Ahlers escribió:
> Rafael Morales wrote:
> > Hi Rudi,
> >
> > Maybe you must add the --type FLAG and give the path of driver like
> > this
> >
> > *driverdisk --source=cdrom://path/to/dd.img
> >
> >
> > *as the path of ks.cfg file*
> >
> > *
> > I hope this help you.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com
> > <mailto:Rudi at softdux.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Does anyone know how todo this?
> > According to the CentOS 5 kickstart notes,
> > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos5/centos5_installation_guide/centos5_s1-kickstart2-options.html
> > I need to use the driverdisk option, but I can't get it to work The
> > motherboard I use is a Gigabyte GA-32MX-S2, which has the
> > following NIC:
> > http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/CentOS5/RealTek/r1000
> > So, I saved the r1000-2.6.18_8.img file to the ISO image before I
> > burned
> > it to a CD
> >
> > Adding the line "driverdisk=r1000-2.6.18_8.img" to ks.cfg just
> > gives me
> > an error.
> >
> > Trying the option "expert" also gives me an error. So, how do I load a
> > NIC driver disk via the kickstart file?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Rudi Ahlers
> > CEO, SoftDux
> >
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> > _______________________________________________U
> >
>
> Unfortunately that option didn't work. The installer then stops and
> prompts for a driver disk, which I don't want.
>
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