updates.img

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

While installing fedora4 with kickstart (from NFS or HTTP server) I face sometimes cases when NIC is unsupported,thus I'm unable to contact the files on remote server.
I used to solve this with adding the driver to initrd.img.
Lately I was pointed to the file updates.img .
If you know how to add drivers with updates.img or if you have a link to the step by step guide please submit your reply.
Thanks in advance.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Alexander,
As far as I understand you should just put
'updates.img' file in 'RedHat/base' directory.
See install-methods.txt doc for more (comes with "anaconda" package [probably we have the same info in "RHEL/Fedora Installation Manual"]

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

Thank for reply, Vitaly.
I've found on the internet that this file should reside in base directory, but how do I create or where do I take from this updates.img file?

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

May be hardware manufacturers should provide updates.img? - some of them did/do provide floppy image of "drivers disk".
As far as I understand, updates.img should "replace" drivers disk for network install.

[Stuart Browne]

If you hunt around, you find references to making a file, making a 'cramfs' filesystem on it, loop-mounting it, then populating it.

Unfortunately, I've not yet found any references on the correct structure to populate it with.. ugh? :)

I was hunting through the Anaconda source last night, but couldn't find references to it, but that was a FC1's version of Anaconda.

I'll poke around again today at work on an FC4 box, and see what I can dig up.