Modified RH 7.1 images, anyone?

[Gregory Hosler]

This is not a direct answer to your question, but might help you get
installed...

if you select "expert" mode when you boot the installation cdrom, it will let
you manually select which driver to load. The 7.1 cd has both Justin's driver
(the default under a normal install), and Doug's (which is labled as
old_aic7xxx or something like that). You might have to boot as "expert
noprobe", I forget.

You should be able to load Doug's old driver manually, do the install, and use
that driver in the meantime.

Once installed, you can (carefully) upgrade your kernel to a newer kernel
that has the support that you desire.

hope this helps,

-Greg

On 05-Jun-01 Lars Nummedal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried to set up RedHat 7.1 with the included kernel using both the
> J. Gibbs and the D. Ledford aic7xxx-drivers that are included with the
> distro. They all have timeout problems on my Adaptec 7896-based
> controller. However, with version 6.1.13 (in kernel 2.4.5) of J. Gibbs'
> driver, the machine boots and runs perfectly. It has also run without a
> problem for 30 days + with RH 7.0 and 2.2.19aa1 (using the D. Ledford
> driver), so I do not think it is a cable/termination problem.
> 
> So, my question is very simple: Does anybody have a set of RH 7.1
> installation disks containing the latest version of the J. Gibbs-driver?
> If not, can someone please point me to a place where it is explained how
> to make new RH 7.1 installations images?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> With kind regards
> -- 
> Lars Nummedal
> Email:    lars at nummedal.net
> WWW:    http://lars.nummedal.net/
> 
> According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
> 
> 
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Date: 06-Jun-01
Time: 10:16:43

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