Re: [uml-user] Problem installing FC4 guest using NFS

[Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...>]

On marted=EC 22 maggio 2007, David Bull wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 02:36, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:20:59AM +0100, David Bull wrote:
> >> The Fedora Core installer appears in one of the xterm's and asks me to
> >> choose a language, a keyboard layout, and an installation method (cdro=
m,
> >> hard disk, nfs, ftp, or http). When I attempt to select one of the
> >> network installation methods I get a message saying "No driver found"
> >> and it then asks me to select a driver from a list, or use a driver
> >> disk.
> >
> > Is it maybe assuming that, in order to get a working network, you need
> > to tell it what driver runs your card?  What's on the list that it
> > gives you?
> >
> > 				Jeff
> >
> > --
> > Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com
>
> Shouldn't it just use the UML tuntap network driver built into the UML
> kernel?

Yes, but you've hit an installer which is "too" smart and tries to actually=
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detect the card, load the module and configure it. And its list does not=20
include any UML driver, obviously. In such situations, you can just try=20
faking or modifying the installer someway.

If it just tries to load a network module and get success from modprobe, ev=
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an alias like
  install ne2000 /bin/true
in /etc/modprobe.conf (if that's read by the initrd) might help.

> The drivers list just brings up a long list of network card=20
> drivers such as 3com, intel express, ne2000, etc. If I try selecting any
> of those it says is can't find the module and asks me to select another
> driver.

> If I boot the slackware guest using the same kernel then I can bring the
> networking up simply by logging in as root and doing "ifconfig eth0
> 172.16.0.101 up".

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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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