Driver Disk
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This page was last edited on 4 January 2022, at 04:48.
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.