On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:58 PM, russell aspinwall <7will...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply but building my own Live CD distro is not a very elegant > solution. > Surely a more practical approach would enable drivers to be added during the > boot process either by automatically scanning USB drives or a second DVD > drive if present. > > This would allow a Live CD to recognise newer hardware just by using the > latest drivers stored in a USB or DVD/CD. Manufacturers could then be asked > to supply drivers for inclusion on the driver DVD/CD. A user copies the > driver DVD/CD to disk, add additional drivers that were supplied with their > hardware and write a new driver DVD/CD specifically for their computer which > could be used in future versions of Live CD. On the the case of a USB drive, > just copy the manufacturers drive to the USB drive.
It is more than just possible. But Alexander answered your question. Maybe you should have asked differently, then he would have known at WHICH POINT and for which purpose you want to add a driver. Just a misunderstanding. Of course you can always add_drv a driver into a running booted LiveCD system, especially as the "/" fs lies in a rw mounted ramdisk since build b14 (and hence, for 4 years now). If you want it early, boot into single user milestone (append "-s" to the Grub kernel cmd line, by hitting "e" twice, then <Esc> and "b"), otherwise you can do it later from a graphical terminal emulator such as gnome-terminal, on X11. If you encounter issues, feel free to ask, %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
