On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ian Levesque ian@crystal.harvard.edu wrote:

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Hello,

I'm curious where I can find the config for the kernel included with the CentOS 5.2 x86_64 installer. I need to verify hardware compatibility (especially ethernet and SATA) prior to making a purchase decision, and reckon that seeing what's included with the installer would be the most direct way.

Thanks for any leads,

/boot/config-<version> if you have a 5.2 system already running. If not you could probably just ask here what driver/module you're looking for.

Thanks for the reply, Jim. I'm curious what the kernel included on the install disc supports, more than anything. We have a workstation configuration that we recommend to labs around the university. In the past few months we've migrated a large number of existing installations from Fedora to CentOS. Unfortunately, our current workstation setup doesn't have ethernet support in the 5.2 install kernel, which became a problem when we were creating a guide for labs to follow when installing CentOS. So, we need to ensure that the next recommended system will be supported by the install kernel as well as the post-install kernel (which I understand I can review in /boot/ config-<version>).

Cheers, Ian

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:

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From what I see, the kernel in /isolinux/vmlinuz on the CentOS 5.2

x86_64 installer CD (which I'm pretty certain is the one booted when you install) is the same as the one inside the kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64.rpm package, at least I md5'd both of them and they match.

That does not imply the module list for functionality supported as config=m will be the same on both sides...