Hello Thomas, Thanks a lot for your reply, first of all. Thomas Hertweck wrote:

Philippe Andersson wrote:

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Can anyone out there please help ?

Any pointer to documentation explaining how to hack / customize the OpenSuSE installer would be welcome.

I am not sure whether this is of any help in your current situation, but it might be worth a look:

http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/

In old days, one could use a floppy disk to provide additional modules at boot or installation time, respectively. You pointed out that your system has no floppy drive - maybe SuSE has meanwhile implemented other ways of providing additional modules. Unfortunately, I cannot answer this question since I am still using an old version ;-) Maybe just boot the installation medium and check what methods are available... Yes, browsing through old SuSE Administration Guides and googling around, I eventually stumbled upon the instructions for building a "Driver Update Disk":

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_Driver_Update_Disk_(DU... and from there on the link you mentionned. In the mean time, I also did a bit more research on the megaraid driver issue (legacy or not), and found out that the driver I was using (megaraid) is actually the "legacy" one (there was a confusion introduced by the difference between the option name in the kernel .config file and the actual module name). Anyway, since I was clearly using the right driver, attempting to create a DUD turned out to be pointless. Eventually, I decided to give that unruly old PERC 2/SC the boot, and to use software RAID through the on-board Adaptec controller. That has worked on the first try. The server is now installed with 10.2, and will soon go into "production" on my home network :-) Thanks again for your support. Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.