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Comment on Updating RedHat/CentOS Kickstart with new drivers by Turned out to be a driver issue by Oscar Gonzalez posted at notagrouch.com

Turned out to be a driver issue by Oscar Gonzalez posted at notagrouch.com — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:43:30 +0000

[...] to updating the drivers. So I had to build a new driver, in the same manner that my buddy Steve built a driver for this very same [...]

Comment on Updating RedHat/CentOS Kickstart with new drivers by steve

steve — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:55:22 +0000

Thanks for the update! I probably need to get a centos 6 kickstart going soon too, so this is very helpful.

Comment on Updating RedHat/CentOS Kickstart with new drivers by eburrows

eburrows — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:32:25 +0000

Steve,
A great howto, thank you!

However, since your original post, a few things have changed, so here are my updates, learned by trial and error:

1. The initrd.img file is no longer ext2, it is a CPIO archive. So, to extract, do:

gunzip -c initrd.img | cpio -iv

2. To re-create initrd, do:

find .buildstamp .profile * | cpio -H newc -ov | gzip -c > ../initrd-new.img

3. The pcitable file is now named pci.ids, and is in a multi-line format, but is straight-forward.

4. It may be necessary to add the driver pci values to the modules.alias file, which is in a similar format to pci.ids.

5. It may be necessary to add the driver to the module-info file, for pretty output to the user.

I found some help at this URL: http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/adding-network-driver-to-pxe-initrdimg/

Thanks!
– Erik Burrows

Comment on Using the Nexenta SA-API – nexenta-health plugin for Nagios by brad

brad — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:14:27 +0000

We are working to improve the feature set accessible through the API as well as the associated documentation. Feel free to contact me at brad @ nexenta dot com to provide me with feedback on improvements you would like to see in the API set and product.

Thanks for sharing your script.

Comment on Updating RedHat/CentOS Kickstart with new drivers by Adding a new driver to CentOS/RHEL 5.x initrd.img | Kroko

Adding a new driver to CentOS/RHEL 5.x initrd.img | Kroko — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:32:20 +0000

[...] Googling around, I couldn’t find much resources or how-tos, the best one was thispost… [...]

Comment on Synchronizing multiple iTunes libraries by steve

steve — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:31:26 +0000

Just an update, I ran into an issue with Syncopation where it would re-sync my whole library, on both machines, constantly. Haven’t heard back from support on this, so I picked up a copy of myTuneSync, and it has been working. Official endorsement changed to myTuneSync.

Comment on Creating a true read-only user in PostgreSQL by Creating a true read-only user in PostgreSQL - DbRunas

Creating a true read-only user in PostgreSQL - DbRunas — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:54:53 +0000

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Comment on Syncing Adium chat logs across multiple Macs, v2.0 by stevek

stevek — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:39:45 +0000

helpful tip, thanks.

Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by muychingon

muychingon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:59:11 +0000

This was very useful for me while I worked on the new PXE boot environment. See this: Adding Centos 5.3 to PXE thanks a lot!

Comment on Converting a Physical Windows Server to Xen / Oracle VM, by way of VMware by ksarkies

ksarkies — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:05:26 +0000

The batch file starts with

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@echo off

if “%1″==”" goto noarg

set ctdir=%1:\i386

goto tryit

:noarg

set ctdir=%SystemRoot%\Driver Cache\i386

:tryit

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Just replace i386 with amd64, works fine.

Sorry haven’t used Win2000 – it seems to be a different beast.

Ken