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

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

	my fault :)
	I was answering from what I read yesterday :)

	Try to put --source=/mnt/sysimage/path/to/dd.img

	Regards :)
	Pablo
	
El lun, 03-03-2008 a las 13:53 +0200, Rudi Ahlers escribió:
> Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
> > 	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?
> >>>
> >>>     --
> >>>
> >>>       
> heh, that's funny! You probably didn't read the whole thing, did you?
> 
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