How do I install a NIC driver image from the CD & a kickstart file?

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

	It's the driver for the network card... so installer cannot reach
network to download it as has no network support yet ;)

	Regards
	Pablo


El lun, 03-03-2008 a las 13:40 +0200, Rudi Ahlers escribió:
> Rafael Morales wrote:
> > Hi Rudi,
> >
> > Maybe you must add the --type FLAG and  give the  path of driver like 
> > this
> >
> > *driverdisk --source=cdrom://path/to/dd.img
> >
> >
> > *as the path of ks.cfg file*
> >
> > *
> > I hope this help you.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com 
> > <mailto:Rudi at softdux.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi
> >
> >     Does anyone know how todo this?
> >     According to the CentOS 5 kickstart notes,
> >     http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos5/centos5_installation_guide/centos5_s1-kickstart2-options.html
> >     I need to use the driverdisk option, but I can't get it to work The
> >     motherboard I use is a Gigabyte GA-32MX-S2, which has the
> >     following NIC:
> >     http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/CentOS5/RealTek/r1000
> >     So, I saved the r1000-2.6.18_8.img file to the ISO image before I
> >     burned
> >     it to a CD
> >
> >     Adding the line "driverdisk=r1000-2.6.18_8.img" to ks.cfg just
> >     gives me
> >     an error.
> >
> >     Trying the option "expert" also gives me an error. So, how do I load a
> >     NIC driver disk via the kickstart file?
> >
> >     --
> >
> >     Kind Regards
> >     Rudi Ahlers
> >     CEO, SoftDux
> >
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> >
> 
> Unfortunately that option didn't work. The installer then stops and 
> prompts for a driver disk, which I don't want.
> 
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