[rhelv6-list] Red Hat 6.2 update woes

[Bill Watson]

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Bill Watson wrote on 04/03/2012 11:33 AM:
> I do not see how this update disk would, could, or should work any 
> different than the elrepo rpm. Without a doubt the 7-1 version when 
> loaded onto a usb stick does not handle a RHEL 6.0 or 6.2 bare metal
install.
>
> If you / yall want to write a test procedure that you wish me to 
> follow, I'd be happy to help.

The driver disk should support a bare-metal install, and I believe it should
not require the pre and post scripts and other magic you used to get the
driver to work.  It should result in an installed system with the kmod
driver already loaded.  The test procedure is simply to do an install using
the driver disk.
Your replies would be easier to follow if your mail client did proper
quoting.
Phil
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Sorry, I suffer with Outlook 2007 - and given the bottom posting lead I'm
following, it's doing the best it can.

The latest driver seems to have failed:
1) I loaded both the i686 and x86_64 driver iso's as the only 2 files on a
usb memory stick.
2) I booted the RHEL 6.2 Boot disk DVD. yada yada then
3) Install or Upgrade an existing system TAB
4) vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img  and I added linux dd   yada yada then
5) Do you have a driver disk?   Yes
6) where? sda, fd0, sr0?   --->sda OK
7) "There are multiple partitions on this device which contain the driver
disk image. Which one would you like to use?
    It gives me a choice of only /dev/sda1   OK
8) Select which driver file   DUP_el6_i686_20120402.iso   or
DUP_el6_x86_64_20120402.iso   I chose x86  OK
9) Error Failed to read directory /tmp/drivers/rpms/i386: No such file or
directory     OK
10) detecting hardware.... waiting for hardware to initialize  (delay)
11) No new drivers were found on this driver disk. This may indicate that
this disk has already been loaded, or that the drivers it contains don't
match your hardware. Would you like to manually selsct the driver, continue
anyway, or load another driver disk?   [Manually choose]
and it loops back to 5)

Bill