Topic: Driver Disk??

[Raoul van Prooijen]

I'm trying to install e-smith (both 3.1 and 4.0b10) on an old HP Netserver I have laying around, but right after i type "proceed" at the last warning screen, the installer asks for a RedHat Driver Disk, which i can't find information on anywhere on the e-smith/redhat websites.

The system has an on-board AIC-7770 scsi controller and two 3com EtherLink III NICs (this is pretty much the only hardware in the machine, and both devices are on the Tier 1 list on redhat's page)

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where to find this mysterious driver disk it's referring to or how to make one myself?

Raoul

[Raoul van Prooijen]

btw, yes i did search through this forum and i found instructions to get the NICs working after installing, but this isn't my problem... i just can't install e-smith at all...

[Charlie Brady]

Raoul van Prooijen wrote:

> I'm trying to install e-smith (both 3.1 and 4.0b10) on an old
> HP Netserver I have laying around, but right after i type
> "proceed" at the last warning screen, the installer
> asks for a RedHat Driver Disk, which i can't find information
> on anywhere on the e-smith/redhat websites.
...
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where to find
> this mysterious driver disk it's referring to or how to make
> one myself?

Try 4.0. The 4.0b10 release had some problems with the SCSI support.
Please let me know how you get on.

Charlie

[Raoul van Prooijen]

I tried 4.0 also, it had the same problem...

when i hit alt-f3, i can see that it says something about trying to access some files in /tmp/ that give error messages about not being there...

btw, i forgot to mention originally that the system is all scsi, so when it doesn't detect the scsi controller it can't even find the cd-rom...

i would really like to run e-smith, but i've run out of stuff that i can think of trying... any help at all would be greatly appreciated...

[Charlie Brady]

Raoul van Prooijen wrote:

> I tried 4.0 also, it had the same problem...
>
> when i hit alt-f3, i can see that it says something about
> trying to access some files in /tmp/ that give error messages
> about not being there...

Better transcribe those messages so that we know what problem you are seeing.

> btw, i forgot to mention originally that the system is all
> scsi, so when it doesn't detect the scsi controller it can't
> even find the cd-rom...

I've installed 4.0 using a SCSI CDROM, so I know that it is possible.

Charlie

[Raoul van Prooijen]

going to insmod fat.o (path is NULL)
going to insmod vfat.o (path is NULL)
failed to open /tmp/drivers/modules.cgz: No such file or directory
failed to open /tmp/drivers/modinfo: No such file or directory
failed to open /tmp/drivers/modules.dep: No such file or directory