Installing PSP as post install script in SLES9 installation

[steve drake]

Anybody install the PSP as part of an Unattended Installation (post-installation script) of SLES9? If so, how did you get the bnx2 driver for the embedded nic to update? On ML370G5, all drivers except the bnx2 driver are updated without error. The bnx2 driver updates just fine if I manually run the PSP after the OS is installed. But I'm trying to make this automatic and include the PSP installation with the OS installation. Almost works, except for bnx2.

[Leibniz]

Hello:

I know it's been quite a while since your post, bun in searching for a solution, yours was the only response relative to my issue.

Were you able to get that sorted out? I would like to know if and how it's possible to autoscript that install825.sh (PSP 8.25 for linux) so that it can be installed unattended.

Thanks very much

Bill

[sdrake48]

Never did solve this. To this day we manually install the PSP after installation.

[Duncan J Innes]

On RHEL5, we create our own firstboot daemon which runs at boot time. We download the PSP to the machine during the OS installation, but the PSP install happens on the first boot of the server.

It doesn't install on every boot as the script that does the PSP install chmod's itself no non-executable when it runs. We can set it to executable later manually if needed.

The reason for the failures is that the installation script tries to compile the drivers against the currently running kernel - which isn't the same as the one you will be running once you reboot.

A successful PSP install will require a reboot too, so your install time will be slightly longer - but at least it's unattended.