How do I install a NIC driver image from the CD & a kickstart file?

[Rudi Ahlers]

Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
> 	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?
>>>
>>>     --
>>>
>>>       
heh, that's funny! You probably didn't read the whole thing, did you?

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