On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 20:13, Hyrum Wright wrote: > 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.
In that case, it sounds like you'd have problems either way because you need to rebuild the kernel anyway. I'd still install from CD, install the kernel source and create a module for the driver you need. What driver is needed? You'll have to build this for every kernel update also. Another possibility is to see if Knoppix works with it out of the box and then anchor it to the HD (it is debian after all). Then you'll have a normal system. I think a cheap and best solution is to just dump the crappy network card that he has (99% of the cards I've ever used worked with the RH installer kernel) and just get a cheap, supported card, like netgear or 3com. Sometimes you can get them for as low as $10. Michael > > 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. -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
