Installing FC4 test3 without downloading or burning ISOs at all

[vishnumrao]

I am presently running FC3 and am trying to install FC4 without downloading or burning ISOs at all. There is a how to in the HOWTO section. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=50221

I started the boot process and then it starts loading the usb driver, asks for the language etc. Then it asks me to choose an ethernet driver. I cancelled and booted to FC3. lspci gives my ethernet as:

00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet Controller (rev a2)

Now I dont know which one of the drivers to use. I dont see any nVidia drivers in the list. I am unsure what to do now. I tried some other drivers that were in the list. but they wont work.

How do I proceed?

Thanking you in advance;
Vishnu Murahari Rao.

[vishnumrao]

Since it lets me to look for the drivers on the disk, I downloaded the drivers and put them on the disk. I also installed the drivers.

Rebooting and trying to install FC4 I reach the stage where it asks for drivers. I choose the NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0301-pkg1.run as the dirver. But then it tells me failed to load drivers.

What next?

[markkuk]

The driver for nForce network cards is "forcedeth". The NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0301-pkg1.run file isn't a driver you can use during the installation, it's a package that must be installed on a working system.

[vishnumrao]

So where do I get the forcedeth drivers from?

Thanks for the reply.

[markkuk]

It's in the Fedora Core distribution.

[vishnumrao]

I dont know where to find it in the distribution. Could you be more specific.

If the drivers were already present then I would have seen it in the list of drivers that shows up. But forcedeth was not present.

Once again thanks.

[vishnumrao]

Since I could not resolve the drivers issue. I went ahead and downloaded the dvd iso and chose a hard disk based install. Installation went perfectly.

It will be much appreciated if any one can suggest me how to fix the driver issue because I will need the information for future upgrades. Anyways thanks.

[markkuk]

It's in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net like all other net drivers.

$ locate forcedeth.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1353_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1363_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko

If it's missing from the list of available drivers in the installer, file a bug report in Bugzilla. Unfortunately it may be too late to get a fix in the final version, the freeze date was last Monday.