On Friday 29 July 2005 01:45, Dan Carpenter wrote:
(On the topic of driver disks).
I've not found really good documentation on driver disks. To create dd.img do you just create a normall driver disk and `cat /dev/fd0 > dd.img`?
Loading driver disk image on a disk partition is not documented. But anaconda seems to have the code to do that. This is why I tried that.
I've been using FC3. From the source in driverdisk.c it looks like it loop back mounts the image and when I try that it seems to find the files, but my installer segfaults.
Anyway, If we want to load driver disk, we can create driver disk (not driver disk *image* on a disk partition) as you mentioned. And we can load driver disk image over NFS, FTP, and HTTP. So the problem I reported is minor thing.
dd=http://path/to/dd.img dd=ftp://path/to/dd.img dd=nfs:host:/dd.img
The driver disk works when you use a floppy.
thanks, dan
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Akinobu Mita wrote:
Hello,
I tried to load driver disk image on a partition in USB storage device. (/dev/sda1:dd.img) But It failed.
Steps to Reproduce:
- create driver disk image (dd.img)
- put dd.img on USB storage device partition (/dev/sda1)
- start FC4 installer with "linux dd"
- select driver disk source as /dev/sda1 and choose the file "dd.img"
Actual results:
anaconda went wrong stage. anaconda displays:
---| Insert Driver Disk |--- Insert your driver disk into /dev/sda and press "OK" to continue.
Expected results:
Successfully load from driver disk image.
I think below patch fixes this problem. but it is untested.
--- anaconda-10.3.0.7/loader2/driverdisk.c.orig 2005-07-27 18:25:13.000000000 +0900 +++ anaconda-10.3.0.7/loader2/driverdisk.c 2005-07-27 18:25:56.000000000 +0900 @@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ int loadDriverFromMedia(int class, modul break; } stage = DEV_LOAD;
break; } case DEV_INSERT: {
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