[CentOS] Making Driver Disks

William wlist-centos at kimballstuff.com
Mon Aug 8 14:56:45 UTC 2005


Hilliard, Jay wrote:
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>> Is the "-BOOT" kernel no longer used for the installer kernel?
>> Likewise, is the cpio (USTAR 5KiB blocking) no longer used for packaging
>> driver disks?
>> [ I guess I haven't kept current in the last year or so if this is the
>> case ]
> 
> No, there is no "-BOOT" kernel anymore.  Typically, the current i586 UP 
> kernel is considered the "BOOT" kernel.
> 
> buildinstall is pretty cool in that you can put any kernel in your 
> distribution and buildinstall will use that kernel as your "-BOOT" 
> kernel and generate boot images (pxe and otherwise) based on it.
> 
> -Jay

While this is all interesting, I wonder if any of you know what it takes 
to make a proper driver disk for CentOS 4?  :)

Thanks!



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