Niels Walet wrote:
> I need to add a forcedeth driver to the ramdisk in the boot image
> (SL4.4). What is the easiest way to do that?


I found easiest to be (similar chicken-and-egg problem
with another network driver)

Prepare driver disk (http://people.redhat.com/dledford/)

Copy the resulting image file into initrd.img (at /)

(can be actually any size , not necessarily 1.44MB floppy)

Tell anaconda (via kickstart or manually) to use it:

dd=path:/your_dd.img

(yes this is not really documented but works ;-))


Alternatively:

unpack the modules/modules.cgz from initrd.img,
add your modules into the tree, repack it.
Edit modules-info, modules.dep, from /modules/,
adding the info about the driver.


Cheers

Jarek

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