[CentOS] how to inject a kmod driver from elrepo into kickstart

Nux! nux at li.nux.ro
Sat Dec 7 10:23:44 UTC 2013


On 07.12.2013 04:15, psavoie1783 wrote:
> 
> I am pxe booting off the marvel card and in order to be able to do 
> what
> you suggest, I think I need the driver to be installed to get the
> kickstart file first. Otherwise, how would the installer get it?
> 
> Phil

When you PXE boot you get a kernel (vmlinuz) and a ramdisk 
(initrd.img), you can use a custom ramdisk that you generate on the 
local machine and include the needed driver, then transfer it on to the 
PXE server. Make sure the vmlinuz and initrd.img have the exact same 
version.

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