Prepare a driver update CD or DVD

You can prepare a driver update on a CD or DVD to perform a driver update during installation.

Before you begin

  • You have received the driver update ISO image from Red Hat, your hardware vendor, or a trusted third-party vendor.
  • You have burned the driver update ISO image to a CD or DVD.
Warning

If only a single ISO image file ending in .iso is available on the CD or DVD, the burn process has not been successful. See your system’s burning software documentation for instructions on how to burn ISO images to a CD or DVD.

Procedure

  1. Insert the driver update CD or DVD into your system’s CD/DVD drive, and browse it by using the system’s file manager tool.
  2. Verify that a single file rhdd3 is available. rhdd3 is a signature file that contains the driver description and a directory named rpms. It contains the RPM packages with the actual drivers for various architectures.