driver

[Jos Vos]

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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