driver (5.4)

[James Cammarata]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:47:17 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> We are installing plenty of machines.  For them we have to specify
> "dd" and then during installation it will ask us for a driver disk.  
> We have on floppy and on USB drive.  Floppy works always (it can read
it).
> USB drive for some reason works only the first time.  Afterwards we get
> a "failed to mount disk" message.
> 
> Anyway I figure there must be a way either to have the driver image on
> a network somewhere that I can access, or build it right into the Cent OS
> 5.4
> installation disk.  That is, in the kick start file somehow specify 
> dd=http:// or ftp:// or something, or create a new installation disk
> (which I have done many times before) with the additional driver (MegaSR)
> in it (which I have never done before).
> 
> Is there some way to locate and specify an additional driver without the
> necessity of having to put it on a separate floppy or USB thumb drive
> and needing special hardware (floppy reader, thumb drive) not to mention
a
> free USB port?

Typically we wget the driver file(s) and install them in %pre, and then
again maybe in %post depending on the driver and what it does.

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