How to create Fedora Core 1 driver disks? (rehash of previous iteraid question)

[David Kewley]

Paul Gear wrote on Wednesday 24 March 2004 01:55:
> Paul Gear wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use Doug Ledford's driver disk package
> > (http://people.redhat.com/dledford/) to create a driver disk for the ITE
> > RAID driver, and i'm missing something.  I hacked the makefile to give
> > me a directory for FC1, but it doesn't produce the correct result.
> > 
> > Some things that were not clear to me from the doco:
> > 
> > 1.  Should the entire kernel tree be present at 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/ in
> > the directory where the kit is extracted?  It seems that something is
> > required here, but my copy of the source from
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/ didn't seem to produce the correct
> > result.
> > 
> > 2.  Should the Makefile in scsi/ just make the driver i'm interested in,
> > or must it be for a full build tree with additional patches for the
> > driver i'm making?
> > 
> > 3.  What should the contents of scsi/ be?  It seems that at least some
> > of the files need to be named differently from their names on the final
> > driver disk (e.g. module-info vs. modinfo, rhdd-6.1 vs. disk-info), but
> > i can't work out which ones need to be named which.
> > 
> > 4.  Some of the files in my scsi/ directory seemed to get copied and/or
> > linked into 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/.  Is this normal, or am i doing
> > something else wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your replies.
> 
> Apologies for pestering, but does anyone out there have the time to
> answer these few questions?

Paul,

I haven't made FC driver disks yet, but I wrote up the process I used (using 
Doug Ledford's kit) to make driver disks for RHL 9.  See:

http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~kewley/driverdisk/dd.html

I'd be interested to hear if this works for you, or if you run into any 
further problems.

BTW, sorry for the few-days delay; I just now read the request you made on 
Saturday. :)

David