On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Jolynn Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I am currently in a situation where I am testing a piece of hardware that is
> experimental and not currently support by any SL version, or upstream linux
> version for what it is worth.  The manufacture has sent me a cd with the
> driver but given that it is a disk controller I have a bit of a chicken and
> egg problem.  This seems to be a common theme for me, it seems that I often
> find myself in this situation and would like to just roll my own version of
> the kernel and initrd that I can use during PXE so I can add drivers as
> needed.  Is there a good document on this process?  It seems like the last
> time I tried this there were issues around md5 check sums.

Untested: If you do a pxe kickstart, you could try the driverdisk
option with the --source switch
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Creating_the_Kickstart_File)

I am not sure if this works for rhel or if this is just fedora for now.

-- 
groeten,
natxo