You have been subscribed to a private bug by Mario Limonciello (superm1):
Upcoming Dell servers will be supporting a new technology called "Driver
Injection Disks". These are essentially read only flash drives that are
connected internally on the USB bus containing drivers preloaded from
the factory.
They are intended to be used during OS installation for an OS release
that doesn't yet include support for the drivers in a server natively.
RHEL and SLES have both adopted it already into their installers.
Here are the key points about it:
1) It will show up as a VFAT disk with the label OEMDRV
2) Drivers from many OSes may be contained on the VFAT disk at any given time.
This means that if a server is certified against Ubuntu 8.04, RHEL 5.3, Windows
Server 2008, and Ubuntu 10.04, that drivers will be on for each of these OSes.
Because of this, it's important to account for possible collisions. For Ubuntu
releases, this is solved by shipping Ubuntu drivers in:
$mnt/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -r -s). Drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 will not be offered
with Ubuntu 10.04 installs then.
3) This VFAT disk will always be exposed as read only to the user during
installation. Using Dell supported tools however, it can be injected with
updated drivers if the customer would like.
4) This option should be preseedable, so in the event that Dell was to ship an
Ubuntu server with Ubuntu preloaded, the drivers should be able to be installed
from the Driver Injection Disk in the factory.
5) When not preseeded, the customer should be offered the option to use the
drivers on the Driver Injection Disk, with the default choice being No.
** Affects: dell
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: hw-detect (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: mountmedia (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/341526
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