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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. | 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. | ||
== | == DKMS == | ||
< | You can use <code>dkms mkdriverdisk</code> to build a driver disk. | ||
For example: <code>dkms mkdriverdisk -d redhat -m qla2x00</code> | |||
== Manually == | |||
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| code = ## 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 | |||
| lang = terminal | |||
}} | |||
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. | |||
== See also == | |||
* http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/it/doc/RH-DOCS/rhl-ig-x86-en-8.0/ch-driverdisk.html | |||
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{{Navbox Linux}}[[Category:Linux]] | {{Navbox Linux}}[[Category:Linux]] | ||
Revision as of 04:48, 4 January 2022
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.
DKMS
You can use dkms mkdriverdisk to build a driver disk.
For example: dkms mkdriverdisk -d redhat -m qla2x00
Manually
## 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 linux expert or linux dd from the boot loader.