Re: installing RH6.2 using kernel 2.2.17

[Matt Drew <mdrew redhat com>]

Short answer:

You can't, unless the driver is on the driver.img disk on the CD.  This is
possible, since the driver made it into 2.2.17, but... don't have time to
look myself.

Long answer:

Maybe.  Easiest (and we're speaking relatively here) would be to find a
driver disk that someone already built, and use the expert install to add
that driver to the system (the initrd) so that you can boot to that
controller.

Next after that would be to get the code, compile it on another system for
that kernel (2.2.14), and build a driver disk yourself.  Ugly, but would
probably work, unless the driver has a particular issue with 2.2.14, and
doesn't work with that kernel (or lower/higher versions).

If anyone knows a better way, I'm all ears.

Matt

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:00:31PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> Does no-one know how to do this?
>
> > I have a RH6.2 CDROM. The default kernel shipping with RH6.2 is
> > 2.2.14. This kernel doesn't have the "cciss" driver for the Compaq 5300
> > RAID controller. I notice however that kernel 2.2.17 has that module. How
> > can I boot this new kernel to install RH6.2 from CDROM onto a Compaq
> > server with this controller. I could use RH7.0 (which has this module
> > in its kernel), but I have my reasons for not using it.
>
>

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