[ale] Looking but can't find: RH6.1 "driver disk"

[Jeff Hubbs]

Steven -

This is an old VL/ISA-bus NEC 486DX/33 and I'm using an Intel EtherExpress
8/16.  Since my last posting I went ahead and installed RH6.0 from a CD with
hopes that I can do a 6.1 upgrade over the Internet through our proxy
server.  I thought the whole point of the bootnet floppy was to contain
enough Ethernet drivers to get you going.

- Jeff

-----Original Message-----
 From: Steven A. DuChene at VA Linux Systems [mailto:sad at valinux.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 5:27 PM
To: Jeff Hubbs
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Looking but can't find: RH6.1 "driver disk"


On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 03:19:24PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I'm trying to do an over-the-internet install of RH 6.1 and I have
instantly
> run into a snag.
> 
> The bootnet floppy wants me to "Insert [my] driver disk and press 'OK' to
> continue."  I presume this means that an array of network card drivers
must
> be elsewhere.  I'm not finding anything in the RH docs that describes the
> network install in enough detail to understand this (and for some stupis
> reason I get MS proxy server errors when I try to search the RH Knowledge
> Base.  From where does this "driver disk" come?
> 

Jeff:
I am attempting to install the VA version of RH6.1 (includes LOTS of bug
fixes
and other improvements over standard RH6.X) on a big VA server in my office
and
I am running into the exact same problem. Out of curiousity is your network
card
onboard the motherboard or does it plug into a slot?
-- 
Steven A. DuChene	sad at valinux.com
Southeast US Systems Engineer
VA Linux Systems	http://www.valinux.com