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Once you have the driver disk created, you will need to tell the installer to load it by booting into | Once you have the driver disk created, you will need to tell the installer to load it by booting into {{code|linux expert</code> or {{code|linux dd</code> from the boot loader. | ||
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Revision as of 19:12, 24 February 2017
Red Hat allows for 'driver disks' to be loaded during an install in case there is no out-of-the-box driver support for a specific piece of hardware. Basically, a driver disk is an ext2 disk image which can be created in the following steps:
Create Driver Disk
# Create a blank, 20MB image
dd if=/dev/zero of=driverdisk.img bs=1M count=20
# Format the image with ext2
mkfs -t ext2 -q driverdisk.img
# mount it and copy the files over
mount -o loop driverdisk.img /mnt/driverdisk
# copy drivers to /mnt/driverdisk, then run
umount /mnt/tmp
Once you have the driver disk created, you will need to tell the installer to load it by booting into {{code|linux expert or {{code|linux dd from the boot loader.