Kind of a newbie here, so please bear with me.

Installing Redhat 8 on a new box, cause can't get the drivers to work
with RedHat 9 (maybe another post).

Hardware I'm working with:

MSI Neo-FISR2 (875P chipset)
Intel 2.60 Gig 800 FSB
(2) Ultra PC3200 400Mhz 1 Gig Kits
LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-6 Controller

2 - Maxtor 80 Gig SATA Drives (RAID 1)
6 - Maxtor 160 Gig SATA Drives (RAID 5)
1 - Generic 52x CDRW

No problems except that I have to load the drivers for both the
FastTrak 378 controller (on board SATA controller) and the LSI SATA
Controller.

At boot up I type linux dd and it prompts me for the driver just
dandy, installs the driver for the 1st controller just fine. But I
also need to install the driver I have for the LSI card.

Any way to install two drivers like this at boot up? If not, is there
a way to use the second driver disk I have later on? And what is the
procedure for this?

Thanks for all your help!

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 Chris Campbell wrote:

>Installing Redhat 8 on a new box, cause can't get the drivers to work
>with RedHat 9 (maybe another post).

I assume you should be able to use the same in RH 9 too, NO?

[...snip...]

>At boot up I type linux dd and it prompts me for the driver just dandy,
>installs the driver for the 1st controller just fine. But I also need
>to install the driver I have for the LSI card.

Ok. From the RH Manual,
+-----------------------
dd

This argument causes the installation program to prompt you to use a
driver diskette.

driverdisk

This command performs the same function as the dd command and also
prompts you to use a driver diskette during the installation of Red
Hat Linux.
+-----------------------

Maybe that should do what you want. Refer,

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...-bootopts.html

>Any way to install two drivers like this at boot up? If not, is there a
>way to use the second driver disk I have later on? And what is the
>procedure for this?

Also, once the installer comes up, you can switch to other consoles
Alt+Cont+F[1-6] and then mount the floppy that has the module,

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

and then do a

modprobe <driver.o>

That's what module loading script does anyway. I am only guessing the
above would work.

GL.
V.