[CentOS] Problem with driver disk on amd64

[Fabian Arrotin]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:28 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> * Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>:
> > I've just installed today a server from Hetzner.de (on a AMD Athlon x2
> > x86_64) using this card in blind mode and it's working with the
> > supplied driver disk on the wiki ...
> 
> Funny, I'm trying to do the exact same thing (DS 3000)
> I'm using "r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img"
> 
> > How can you tell that 'installer complains no driver for the hardware
> > could be found' if you don't have console access ?
> 
> I got a LARA, a Java-based remote console. But I can't switch consoles
> with that thing ('Alt' is caught on my local machine).
> I'm booting with (shortened):
> 'linux dd method=http:// nousb noipv4 ip= netmask= gateway= dns='
> 
> If I do that with the 64bit vmlinuz/initrd.img, the system asks me where
> the driver disk is located, loads it and complains that there's no
> driver for the necessary hardware (ethernet).
> With the 32bit version, everything works fine.
> 
> > just to be sure : what's the result of lspci -v
> > mine : 
> > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> > RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
> 
> Looks exactly the same here in 2.6.18-53.el5. But unfortunatly, 
> "i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux"
> 
I've installed it with success on a DS3000 too .. but i didn't use
LARA ...
I've mostly (i've changed some parameters though) used the informations
provided here :
http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DS8000_/_CentOS_5_/_VNC_Install
I'll probably write something on the Wiki regarding such remote setup
but i can assure you that it's working for me ;-)

-- 
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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