[CentOS] Problem with driver disk on amd64

Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net
Wed Dec 12 11:30:18 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 12:13 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> * Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>:
> > 5.1 x86_64 with the r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img.zip driverdisk
> > image ...
> 
> Thanks for the hint, it seems to work.
> Now could someone please explain to me why selecting the driver disk by
> hand (having booted with 'linux dd') doesn't work, but creating a
> kickstart-config that points to a partition with the driver disk works?
> 
What was the line you used with dd= .. i mean how did you provide the
driverdisk to the installer because you had no physical access ... ?
Because it's a network driver you can not use dd=nfs:// nor ftp nor http
(of course ... ;-) )
That's why you have to point it to a local hdd
-- 
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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