Driver disks can be used during Kickstart installations to provide additional drivers not included by default. You must copy the driver disks contents to the root directory of a partition on the system’s disk. Then, you must use the driverdisk command to specify that the installation program should look for a driver disk and its location. Use this command only once.

Syntax

              driverdisk [partition|--source=url|--biospart=biospart]
            

Options

You must specify the location of driver disk in one way out of these:

• partition - Partition containing the driver disk. The partition must be specified as a full path (for example, /dev/sdb1), not just the partition name (for example, sdb1).
• --source= - URL for the driver disk. Examples include:

  driverdisk --source=ftp://path/to/dd.img
  driverdisk --source=http://path/to/dd.img
  driverdisk --source=nfs:host:/path/to/dd.img

• --biospart= - BIOS partition containing the driver disk (for example, 82p2).

Notes

You can load the driver disks from a local disk or a similar device instead of being loaded over the network or from initrd. To do this:

1. Load the driver disk on a disk drive, a USB or any similar device.
2. Set the label, for example, DD, to this device.
3. Add the following line to your Kickstart file:

   driverdisk LABEL=DD:/e1000.rpm

   Replace DD with a specific label and replace e1000.rpm with a specific name. Use anything supported by the inst.repo command instead of LABEL to specify your disk drive.