[CentOS] Adding kmod to pxe install

Mon Dec 2 18:58:01 UTC 2019
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 02/12/2019 16:08, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2019-12-02 10:00, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On 02/12/2019 12:42, Alexandre Leonenko wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I'm stumped in how to add the kmod rpm to pxe install. I need it to 
>>> be installed but also loaded during the install as well.
>>> The rpm in question is the 3w-9xxx from elrepo 
>>> https://centos.pkgs.org/8/elrepo-x86_64/kmod-3w-9xxx-2.26.02.014-1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm constantly getting the following message
>>> Warning: can't find installer main image path in .treeinfo
>>>
>>> Any help or pointing in right direction would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex
>>
>> If you need it at install time, you need a dud (Driver Disk), so see
>> http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo/dud/el8/x86_64/ and use inst.dd=
>>
> 
> Thank you, Fabian! I too may need it in close future.
> 
> Valeri
> 

Hopefully it's obvious, but make sure you pick the driver update disk 
image that matches the kernel/point release you are installing (e.g, 
el8_0 or el8_1 etc).