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

[Jeff Hubbs]

Chris, I don't think there's anything in this computer that's less than four
years old.  The bootnet floppy asked me for a driver disk without my
entering any kind of expert mode.  

- Jeff

-----Original Message-----
 From: Chris Ricker [mailto:kaboom at gatech.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 9:56 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Looking but can't find: RH6.1 "driver disk"


On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, 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?

If you do an expert install (and under a few other circumstances as well),
it will automatically prompt you for a driver disk.  If you don't have one,
just hit cancel (or enter, or whatever).

It's for hardware which isn't supported by the base distribution.  For
example, if you have a new tulip clone card, it probably won't work with the
v0.89H tulip driver that ships with Linux 2.2.12 and with RH 6.1.  There's
an updated version of it you can download from RH which comes as a driver
disk that you pop in at that point.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu