On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:34 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos 5.2 x86_64.

Yep - it's definitely in the kickstart docs - don't remember where though...

Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot?

See above... ;)

Either is fine... Presently I have a rtl 8168 that just hangs at DHCP request. I want to use all the kickstart information I have setup, but need the network to work for that.

From what I recall, there's an entry to the start of the kickstart

something like "linux ks=whatever dd" or something like that... How to automate it into unattended kickstart? I haven't done that yet, so I'm not sure.

-I

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:34 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

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/ Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos

/>/ 5.2 x86_64. / Yep - it's definitely in the kickstart docs - don't remember where though...

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/ Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot?

/ See above... ;)

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/ Either is fine... Presently I have a rtl 8168 that just hangs at DHCP

/>/ request. />/ I want to use all the kickstart information I have setup, but need the />/ network to work for that. /

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/From what I recall, there's an entry to the start of the kickstart

/something like "linux ks=whatever dd" or something like that... How to automate it into unattended kickstart? I haven't done that yet, so I'm not sure.

Ian,

I am looking at the docs and have not seen how to get a USB network adapter to be recognized at installation time. Do you know how to do this? I have a trendnet et100 device (usb network adapter) that linux supports. I wish to just disable the onboard network, use the usb NIC to do my install, and yum udpates, then re-enable the onboard NIC.

My issue is I cannot get the usb NIC to be recognized at installation time? Is that possible?

Jerry