Thanks Peter and Akemi.

All working. Amazing really. I now have my Centos 5 on the Internet.
I wonder whether it is worth re-installing Cebtos 5 and trying to get my new driver (.ko file presumably) to load off a USB drive at install time. Do you think this would be straight forward. Is there anything to gain?

Richard.


Peter Kjellstrom wrote: 
On Thursday 28 June 2007, Richard Chapman wrote:
  
Thanks Peter and Akemi. I stand suitably chastised for replying to
random post. I wont do it again. Maybe this is why I haven't found the
list as responsive as it seemed to others... Thanks for the information.
I didn't know about the smarts in the email client.

Thanks also for the info on kernel-devel - but the snag is my centos
system isn't on the Internet because the lan driver is broken...:-). We
seem to have  a bootstrap problem...:-). I therefore assume I can't just
"yum" for it. Can you tell me where I can find it for the xen enabled
kernel 2.6.18-8.el5.src?
    

No you don't want the source, you want the package:
kernel-devel

to be exact:
http://mirror.nsc.liu.se/centos/5.0/updates/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm

(or from another mirror, or an older version if you cant security update, or 
i386 instead of x86_64 if that's the case ...)

  
Presumably I can then download it and transfer 
it on a usb drive - then use a local "yum" command?
    

The download to usb-stick part sounds ok, but I'm not sure a "yum 
localinstall .." will work since this still assumes network (just that you 
have this here local rpm to install). My suggestion, just do "rpm -ivh 
file.rpm".

Good luck,
 Peter
  

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