Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>> This question had been posted a week ago, but seems to have disappeared
>> along the way.  Since I'm still looking for the answer, I'm reposting.
>>
>> I now know how to create a new initrd.img after modifying its pcitable
>> file to include the Initio scsi controller (which runs my scsi CD drive).
>> But I don't have a CD burner, so I can't just replace the original
>> initrd.img with the modified one.  The new initrd.img resides at present
>> in the /tmp directory of the computer hard drive's linux partition.
>>
>> During the first part of the install of SL 4.2, how does one tell the pro-
>> cess to look for the new initrd.img not on the install CD, but at a loca-
>> tion on the hard drive?  Do I need to place a copy of vmlinuz there as
>> well?
>
> You cannot really do that (without modifying the boot CD): but you can
> boot firectly from installation kernel and your modified initrd using
> either grub (or loadlin if your files are on an FAT partition) from an
> installed system.
> 
> Just add these to your bootloader config.
> 
> The main weakness of this method is that it can be used only once (if
> you overwrite during installation the partition on which initrd/vmlinuz
> and bootloader are and sthg fails in the process) ..
> 
> Instead I would suggest you looking at ddiskit:
> 
>    http://people.redhat.com/linville/ddiskit/
> 
> which allows easy building of additional driver disks which can be used
> during installation.
 
Fantastic!  Thank you, Jaroslaw, that looks like the easiest way to
solve my problem.

- Dushan Mitrovich