From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Mon 24 Jul 2000 - 21:21:14 IST
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:40:44PM -0700, Brian Boyd wrote:
> Sounds good, looks like I'm getting closer, however all of the files on
> Dell's site are in RPM format. Kinda hard to install drivers when the OS
> isn't installed yet. I'm still looking for a handy install disk from Dell,
> but no avail. I suppose I could try to make an install disk, but that is a
> pain.
redhat can ask for drivers, but i don't know the disk format. if
you boot with linux expert or linux dd it will ask for a driver
disk. what format does it want?
hm... i don't have a 6.2 cd handy, but the relevant part of the installer
is in misc/src/anaconda/loader/devices.c in the function devCopyDriverDisk.
it wants a floppy with a rhdd-6.1 directory containing the following
files:
modules.cgz, modinfo, modules.dep
don't know if it's looking for ext2 or dos format. the names are 8.3
compatible. ah, yes, it wants a "vfat" disk. that's dos i think.
so see if the dell site has those files. if not you can see examples
of them on the redhat install floppy. to get this off the cd do this
as root:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount -t vfat /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img /mnt/floppy -oloop
zcat /mnt/floppy/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.img
mkdir /tmp/install
mount -t ext2 /tmp/initrd.img /tmp/install -oloop
umount /mnt/floppy
umount /mnt/cdrom
ls /tmp/install/modules
the files will be in there. modules.cgz is a gzipped cpio archive.
cpio will be the hardest part of the whole thing i suspect. if dell
doesn't have them maybe you can publish a dell install floppy and
become famous! or maybe not...
good luck!
kevin
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