[rhelv6-list] Info on network install with 10Gbit/s

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 10/15/2013 05:59 PM, Mertin, Joerg wrote:
> Yup - I know that.
> Unfortunately, from experience, this does not always work - especially when having security fixes which change the ABI. Well - on my workstation using Ubuntu that happens quite often.
> Using RedHat only on the servers...
ABI changes extremely rarely in RH. And elrepo's kmods are created so as 
to take advantage of the weak-modules mechanism so they can be reused 
without issues after kernel upgrades. Which is the core point of the 
whole story
And kmod packages can be integrated in driver disks with a tiny bit of work.




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> Joerg Mertin | Sr. Engineering Services Architect | CA Technologies | APM Global SWAT Team | Mobile: +33 6 19 51 90 24 | joerg.mertin at ca.com
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> From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Manuel Wolfshant
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] Info on network install with 10Gbit/s
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> On 10/15/2013 05:07 PM, Mertin, Joerg wrote:
>> It is possible - I do it on occasions (I created some 20 Kickstart images myself in the last 2 years).
>> The dd command is only "added" to the current kickstart action and asks then for a driver disk before continuing the installation.
>> The only part where it fails is when the kernel gets updated and does not provide the driver :} There, you will have to reboot into the old kernel, get the new driver and install it manually for the new kernel release.
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> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-ixgbe
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>> Joerg Mertin | Sr. Engineering Services Architect | CA Technologies | APM Global SWAT Team | Mobile: +33 6 19 51 90 24 | joerg.mertin at ca.com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gianluca Cecchi
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:02 PM
>> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list
>> Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] Info on network install with 10Gbit/s
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>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mertin, Joerg  wrote:
>>> Get a Driver Disk from the manufacturer of the network card, and install the RedHat system using dd (Tells it to use a driver disk).
>> Yes, I was thinking abut it too, as the Intel ixgbe driver seems far ahead, at least in version....
>> Never tried to embed use of dd in automated install via kickstart, so I don't know if it is possible and how to do it...
>> Any tip welcome
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>> Gianluca