On Thu, Nov 04, Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 16:22 +0200, J. Daniel Schmidt wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 November 2010 07:45:43 Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
> > >
> > > My goal is to insert a RAID driver right before install begins.
> > > Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
> >
> > To reach that goal you could use the "DriverUpdate" boot parameter and
> make
> > the driver available locally or via network. You do not need to create
> a CD.
>
> That's what I want to do.
>
> > See also: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc
>
> As I understand, I have to prepare a driver update medium of some form
> (be it a directory in the network) to make the "DriverUpdate" linuxrc
> parameter happen.
>
> It's the newer version of the document you are referring to,
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc, that refers to a description of the
> "driver update medium" format,
> http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/index.html.
>
> This document is not maintained anymore, and I simply want to save
> myself the time preparing a "driver update medium" that nobody
> understands. From what I see in
> http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/, chances are high that things
> have changed substantially in the meantime.
>
> So, can somebody please shed some light on this?
The Person with most knowledge about this is definitely Steffen Winterfeld,
unfortunately he is on vacation until 14.11.
Tschuess,
Thomas Fehr
--
Thomas Fehr, SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-482, Email: [email protected]
GPG public key available.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
