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

[Steven A. DuChene at VA Linux Systems]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > 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?
> 

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 07:56:05AM -0700, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 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.
> 

That may be true but if you do hit cancel, then it never attempts to find
a network card and you won't be able to install off the network. When it gets
to choices of install methods, the only choice will be CDROM. I think this
is a bug but that's just my opinion.
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Steven A. DuChene	sad at valinux.com
Southeast US Systems Engineer
VA Linux Systems	http://www.valinux.com