Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58481
RFE: Ability to pull driver disk from cd-rom or network
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: It is not possible to add drivers from a cd-rom or network connection. This is a big problem especially installing colo placed servers which in 99% nowadays don't have a floppy disk. Also remote installs AMS->Nigeria (shell) makes it very hard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy servelinux 1U mini 2. try installing it. (bus sees disks as ide i.s.o. scsi with ft driver 3. Actual Results: After install, Device errors in the log Expected Results: harddrive should have been seen as sda1 Additional info: Call for more info on this topic: +31 70 404 4444 or mail: antoine.a.adams@is.shell.com / antoine@nebula.nl
Are you asking for a feature similiary to the current driver disk option thta loads from different media, or something else?
It's accually 2 things in one. 1 the fasttrack driver isn't working but alan is busy with that so that goes away. Then is exactly as the driver disk but then be able to choose the media type, /dev/cdrom /dev/fd0 via httpd, ftp or nfs (this one prob is difficult) bui the first two would save a lot. Because you can make a driver CD by yourselve
Deferring to a future release
Pulling drivers from a CD-ROM drive is now supported. Network driver disks aren't going to be supported in interactive installs at the current time.
I am unable to pull a driver disk from cdrom. I'm getting "Failed to mount driver disk". This is an ide DVD/CD-RW in a Thinkpad A31.
That was with Phoebe public beta 2
Added mounting iso9660 fs's
closing. loading drivers via cdrom is possible with Red Hat Linux 9.