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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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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 linux expert or linux dd from the boot loader.