Re: Looking for Doc on creating RedHat 8 Installation driver disk

Richi

You can also load the driver on a loaded machine but it is harder. The process is on page 2 of the install sheet I sent you.

Richard

>From: Richi Plana

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>Subject: Looking for Doc on creating RedHat 8 Installation driver disk

>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:25:07 -0700

>Hi,

>I have a piece of hardware (Promise FastTrak 2000) which requires a

>special driver (ft.o) in order to install RedHat 8.0. Is there some

>kind of documentation that describes the process of creating a

>driver disk? Somewhat related to that, will a driver compiled

>against a different kernel (say, kernel-2.4.20) work with the RedHat

>8 installation kernel (2.4.18-14, I believe)?

>If I'm not mistaken, once the driver is loaded, my array will

>magically appear as a SCSI drive (/dev/sda?) and that the RedHat 8.0

>installer will automatically copy the driver module to the new

>installation and add entries in /etc/modules.conf (I think).

>--

>*Richard Plana, B.Sc., CCNA*

>Secretary

>Calgary Linux Users' Group

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