On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Jolynn Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Good day, > > I am currently in a situation where I am testing a piece of hardware that is > experimental and not currently support by any SL version, or upstream linux > version for what it is worth. The manufacture has sent me a cd with the > driver but given that it is a disk controller I have a bit of a chicken and > egg problem. This seems to be a common theme for me, it seems that I often > find myself in this situation and would like to just roll my own version of > the kernel and initrd that I can use during PXE so I can add drivers as > needed. Is there a good document on this process? It seems like the last > time I tried this there were issues around md5 check sums.
Untested: If you do a pxe kickstart, you could try the driverdisk option with the --source switch (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Creating_the_Kickstart_File) I am not sure if this works for rhel or if this is just fedora for now. -- groeten, natxo
