adding drivers to bootnet.img for redhat8...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
This has been on my mind since trying to install redhat8 over the network with Tigon 3 (100/1000 bit) NIC. It seems Redhat8, does not have this module built in correctly. I tried using tg3.o, but it failed. The question is, would it be possible to get an updated kernel, compile it and configure bootnet.img with the correct driver? I am interested in rolling the boot diskette and cdrom installation over the network.

[Bryce Wade]

I ran into the same problem. I tried (unsucessfully) to build my own bootnet.img, then found HP has a bootnet floppy image you can use. Here is the URL for the one I used:

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/19403.html

There are several web pages that will tell you how to roll you own, for example:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2002-July/msg00004.html

But why reinvent the wheel. I would say download the boot image from HP. You should be able to use the same initrd.img file for a CD.

[K.C. Chan]

All,
thanks for the help. I figured it out. Basically relace kernel in initrd.img and modules dir in stage2.img. Because of this, I know that stage2.img is created via cramfs and initrd is a compress dd file. There are other file in the 1st CD of Redhat8 that's *.img:
boot.img - boot image for CD and hard drive based install
bootnet.img - boot image for network based install
pcmcia.img - boot image for installing on laptops
drvblock.img - Supplemental Block Device Drivers
drvnet.img - Supplemental Network Drivers
pcmciadd.img - PCMCIA Driver Diskette

Does any one know what is used to created them? Is it cramfs? Thanks.