Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

2008-10-19 Thread Clint Dilks
That part is probably a typo. It says to use a FDD or USB removable storage for the driver disk image. Either expand it to a floppy, which the server probably doesn't have, or put it unexpanded onto a USB flash drive. Then boot from the built in optical drive and use the linux dd command. Or you

[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

2008-10-17 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-16-2008 5:15 PM Clint Dilks spake the following: > >> >> I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if someone has a url to >> the driver disk in question, I can try and look at what the issue >> might be >> >> > Hi > > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_13121.shtm > > Or go to http://w

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

2008-10-16 Thread Clint Dilks
I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if someone has a url to the driver disk in question, I can try and look at what the issue might be Hi http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_13121.shtm Or go to http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/~clintd/R905/ just to get the files I obtained from D

[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-16-2008 2:22 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> It should work in theory. But if the driver disk is for RedHat 5u1, it >> probably won't work with CentOS 5.2, as the install media will have a >> different kernel. The driver disk only patches the running installer >

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

2008-10-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
Scott Silva wrote: It should work in theory. But if the driver disk is for RedHat 5u1, it probably won't work with CentOS 5.2, as the install media will have a different kernel. The driver disk only patches the running installer kernel AFAIR. I get a 404 on the url in the OP's post, but if som

[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-15-2008 7:33 PM Clint Dilks spake the following: > Hi, > > I am trying to install CentOS 5.2 on a Dell PowerEdge R905, and a > problem that you run into is that the DVD Drive on the system is not > recognized by the kernel. > I have done some searching on the web and found > http://kbase.red