Neither the boot CDs or floppies have the network drivers for RedHat. This includes the use of the additional boot floppy that supposedly has more drivers on it. The full 3 disk set of CDs doesn't have the proper drivers, either.
Hyrum On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:42, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:00, Hyrum Wright wrote: > > I'm trying to help a friend install Linux for the first time. I've > > decided to go with RedHat, because it is fairly new user friendly. I > > want to do a network install, because I don't want to burn the disks, > > and I've already got the network install files sitting on a local > > webserver. The problem is that the RedHat boot disks (either floppy or > > CD iso) don't contain the network drivers for his box. (He has an HP > > Pavilion 775e, with an integrated network card). > > > > I've tried the Gentoo LiveCD, and that seems to use the correct network > > drivers (I can ping the install server and such), but it's no dice with > > the RedHat disk. Any suggestions? > > There are ways of creating driver disks for the installer, but it > involves recompiling the installer kernel and so forth. I would just > burn him some CDs if I were you. Besides that, he'll want to have the > CDs when you are gone. > > Michael > > > > > > Thanks, > > Hyrum > > > > PS - I'm tempted to go with Gentoo, however, since he is a Linux newbie, > > and he will not be my roommate in a couple of months, I would like to go > > with a low maintanance solution for right now. -- Need an Open Source Genealogy tool? Help write one! http://openancestry.sourceforge.net/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
