Hello Thomas,
Thanks a lot for your reply, first of all.
Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Philippe Andersson wrote:
Can anyone out there please help ?
Any pointer to documentation explaining how to hack / customize the
OpenSuSE installer would be welcome.
I am not sure whether this is of any help in your current situation, but
it might be worth a look:
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/
In old days, one could use a floppy disk to provide additional modules
at boot or installation time, respectively. You pointed out that your
system has no floppy drive - maybe SuSE has meanwhile implemented other
ways of providing additional modules. Unfortunately, I cannot answer
this question since I am still using an old version ;-) Maybe just boot
the installation medium and check what methods are available...
Yes, browsing through old SuSE Administration Guides and googling
around, I eventually stumbled upon the instructions for building a
Driver Update Disk:
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_Driver_Update_Disk_(DUD)
and from there on the link you mentionned.
In the mean time, I also did a bit more research on the megaraid driver
issue (legacy or not), and found out that the driver I was using
(megaraid) is actually the legacy one (there was a confusion
introduced by the difference between the option name in the kernel
.config file and the actual module name). Anyway, since I was clearly
using the right driver, attempting to create a DUD turned out to be
pointless.
Eventually, I decided to give that unruly old PERC 2/SC the boot, and to
use software RAID through the on-board Adaptec controller. That has
worked on the first try.
The server is now installed with 10.2, and will soon go into
production on my home network :-)
Thanks again for your support.
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
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