driver

[tony.chamberlain at lemko.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jos Vos [mailto:jos at xos.nl]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:53 AM
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: Re: driver

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:48:10PM +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:

> We have a special machine that, when you try to install CentOS on it,
> says there are no hard drives.  The vendor gave us a zip file which we
> unzip and then do a "linux dd" to have it ask us for a driver disk which
> we then install.
> 
> We would like to rebuild the Linux install DVD and CDS (which I know how
> to do) with this driver there that gets automatically found during 
> installation somehow (probably via a kickstart file) or at the minimum
> give the user a menu of drivers with this one in it, and the user knows which
> to pick.
> 
> Is this possible?

*If* the driverdisk works, yuou can address it in kickstart:

  driverdisk --source=http://host/path/to/dd.img

(or ftp or nfs source paths, just like you specify a kickstart file
on the boot prompt).

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The files they gave us, and that worked when we just inserted the memory
stick and it found it, are listed below.  I pleaced them into a directory
called raiddisk.  Can I just specify this directory
(like cdrom:/addon/raiddisk or do I have to put a filename after raiddisk?
These are the files:
    modules.alias    modules.pcimap  replace_ahci_readme.txt
    disk-info        modules.cgz     pci.ids                  
    replace_ahci.sh  modinfo         modules.dep              
    pcitable         rhdd

My question is can I say

    driverdisk --source=cdrom:/addon/raiddrive/

in isolinux.cfg or do I have to say

    driverdisk --source=cdrom:/addon/raiddrive/SOMEFILE

and if the second is true, what should SOMEFILE be?

I have the files in a subdirectory under the CentOS4.5 directory
where I succesfully made Centos installs before doing other stuff.
It is in a subdir called addon/raiddrive