[yast-devel] Update media format
Hi, I'm looking for information on how to create an update medium. So far I found http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/index.html, but that is not maintained anymore, and describes <= 9.1. My goal is to insert a RAID driver right before install begins. Can somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Joerg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 04 November 2010 07:45:43 Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
My goal is to insert a RAID driver right before install begins. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
To reach that goal you could use the "DriverUpdate" boot parameter and make
the driver available locally or via network. You do not need to create a CD.
See also: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc
Ciao,
Daniel
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J. Daniel Schmidt
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 16:22 +0200, J. Daniel Schmidt wrote:
On Thursday 04 November 2010 07:45:43 Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
My goal is to insert a RAID driver right before install begins. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
To reach that goal you could use the "DriverUpdate" boot parameter and make the driver available locally or via network. You do not need to create a CD.
That's what I want to do.
See also: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc
As I understand, I have to prepare a driver update medium of some form (be it a directory in the network) to make the "DriverUpdate" linuxrc parameter happen. It's the newer version of the document you are referring to, http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc, that refers to a description of the "driver update medium" format, http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/index.html. This document is not maintained anymore, and I simply want to save myself the time preparing a "driver update medium" that nobody understands. From what I see in http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/, chances are high that things have changed substantially in the meantime. So, can somebody please shed some light on this? Thanks, Joerg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Nov 04, Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 16:22 +0200, J. Daniel Schmidt wrote:
On Thursday 04 November 2010 07:45:43 Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
My goal is to insert a RAID driver right before install begins. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
To reach that goal you could use the "DriverUpdate" boot parameter and make the driver available locally or via network. You do not need to create a CD.
That's what I want to do.
See also: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc
As I understand, I have to prepare a driver update medium of some form (be it a directory in the network) to make the "DriverUpdate" linuxrc parameter happen.
It's the newer version of the document you are referring to, http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc, that refers to a description of the "driver update medium" format, http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/index.html.
This document is not maintained anymore, and I simply want to save myself the time preparing a "driver update medium" that nobody understands. From what I see in http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/, chances are high that things have changed substantially in the meantime.
So, can somebody please shed some light on this?
The Person with most knowledge about this is definitely Steffen Winterfeld, unfortunately he is on vacation until 14.11. Tschuess, Thomas Fehr -- Thomas Fehr, SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-482, Email: fehr@suse.de GPG public key available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 04 November 2010 16:21:27 Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
As I understand, I have to prepare a driver update medium of some form (be it a directory in the network) to make the "DriverUpdate" linuxrc parameter happen.
Nope, you can but don't have to.
" <url> should point either to a directory with the unpacked driver update or
to a driver update archive. "
" For easy testing the semantics has been extended a bit: if <url> does not
point to a driverupdate but rather a normal filesystem image, cpio archive,
or rpm, it is unpacked and the files are added to the install (or rescue)
system. "
So just put the RPM or tarball on some http-server and add something like this
as boot parameter:
DriverUpdate=http://foo/bar/mydriver.rpm
Ciao,
Daniel
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J. Daniel Schmidt
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