driverdisk --source= option

[Mike Smith]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:06:31AM +0000, Philip Rowlands wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> >Doing a kickstart install fails when trying to use the following :
> >
> >driverdisk --source=ftp://172.16.0.3/pub/drivers/dd.img
> >
> > It gives an error like this :
> >
> >mntloop loop6 on /tmp/drivers as /tmp/dd.img fs is 14
> >failed to mount loop : Invalid argument
>
> This message is coming from anaconda's loader2/method.c, and is printed
> after trying to mount the image as iso9660, ext2, cramfs then vfat. If I
> had to guess, the "Invalid argument" might be the image itself. Are you
> sure it's being transferred properly?

> If i remember correctly anaconda fails to try vfat for driver disks from
> the network, it's a different code path for local and network and i
guess
> someone forgot to add vfat in the network branch. I can't remember if i
> added a bugzilla entry about it either :(

>A quick solution is to rebuild your driver disk as ext2 instead of vfat.

 Thanks for the responses. I'll certainly give it a try by making it an
ext2 fs.

 Could it be possible that the loop module isn't included with the
bootdisk.img? Just starting to dig into this a bit more.

 I'm fairly sure the image is being transferred correctly. I'm able to ftp
it from one box and mount via    mount -o loop dd.img /mnt/loop

- Mike
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