Fedora installation kernel and driver disk bug?

[Michael Madore <mmadore aslab com>]

Hi,

I have built driver disks for previous versions of RedHat to support 
installation with disk controllers or network adapters not supported 
with the drivers on CD.  I am attempting to do the same with Fedora, but 
it seems that the behavior of the installer has been changed a bit.  
Instead of searching for the driver under:

2.4.22-1.2115.nptlBOOT

The installer is searching under:

2.4.22-1.2115.nptl

Not only that, but it expects the driver to be compiled using the 
kernel-2.4.22-i586.config file.

Putting i586 driver modules in this directory will allow the system to 
be installed, but then the wrong modules get installed under 
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and the system won't boot.  The 
workaround is to boot the SMP kernel and then copy the proper modules 
and remake the initial ramdisk.  Is this a bug, or has the layout of the 
driver disks changed?

Mike Madore