AW: [CentOS] Problems with installation

Horchler, Joerg joerg.horchler at coremedia.com
Fri Jul 14 12:48:05 UTC 2006


how can I tell him where to find the drivers? the installer always tries to
use /dev/hda 

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von Jim Perrin
Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 14:41
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Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation

On 7/14/06, Horchler, Joerg <joerg.horchler at coremedia.com> wrote:
> ok - I tried this too. But CentOS tries to find the floppy as /dev/hda 
> which is not the device for the USB-Floppy. Dell ships one with the 
> server because no one is integrated. So when I try to include the 
> driver disk the installer is not able to find it.

So put the driver disk on a local network NFS share, webserver or usb memory
stick. It doesn't have to be an actual floppy disk (people still use
those?). I usually toss all the drivers I'm going to need for an install at
work onto a usb memory stick and let the installer pick them up from there.



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