[CentOS] how to inject a kmod driver from elrepo into kickstart

psavoie1783 psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Sat Dec 7 15:09:27 UTC 2013


On 07/12/13 05:23 AM, Nux! wrote:
> On 07.12.2013 04:15, psavoie1783 wrote:
>>
>> I am pxe booting off the marvel card and in order to be able to do
>> what
>> you suggest, I think I need the driver to be installed to get the
>> kickstart file first. Otherwise, how would the installer get it?
>>
>> Phil
>
> When you PXE boot you get a kernel (vmlinuz) and a ramdisk
> (initrd.img), you can use a custom ramdisk that you generate on the
> local machine and include the needed driver, then transfer it on to the
> PXE server. Make sure the vmlinuz and initrd.img have the exact same
> version.
>

That would work... but what if I install the kmod driver right after I 
install the notebook and took the new initramfs file and threw it on the 
pxe server would this work?

Phil
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