Bug 176300

Summary:	erronous example or description in driver media documentation
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask>
Component:	Installation_Guide	Assignee:	Jack Reed <jreed>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.7	CC:	pbokoc
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/ap-driverdisk.html
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Description Ask Bjørn Hansen 2005-12-21 00:08:52 UTC

This documentation snippet doesn't make sense:

The example doesn't match the description.  From the description it sounds like the installer will find 
the drive and ask which disk image on the drive to use, but the example suggests treating the USB drive 
as a floppy.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports using a USB pen drive as a way to add driver images during the 
installation process. The best way to do this is to mount the USB pen drive and copy the desired 
driverdisk.img onto the USB pen drive. For example:

dd if=driverdisk.img of=/dev/sda 
You are then prompted during the installation to select the partition and specify the file to be used."

Comment 3 Michael Hideo 2007-10-23 02:45:45 UTC

Removing automation notification

Comment 4 Michael Hideo 2008-01-22 04:36:21 UTC

Moving to Don

Comment 5 Don Domingo 2008-01-29 03:15:07 UTC

corrected in source, removed "You are prompted during the installation..." and
clarified /dev/sda to refer to device ID of USB pen drive. setting as MODIFIED.

Comment 6 Don Domingo 2008-07-23 06:13:01 UTC

need to verify this for rlerch

Comment 7 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 13:21:12 UTC

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