Create driver disk redhat

A typical. Preparing a Driver Disc. If you use a different Linux desktop, or a different operating system altogether, you will need to use another piece of software to create the CD or DVD. The steps will be generally similar. Look for a button or menu entry labeled burn from image or similar. If your software lacks this feature, or you do not select it, the resulting disc will hold only the image file itself, instead of the contents of the image file.

Use the desktop file manager to locate the ISO image file of the driver disc, supplied to you by Red Hat or your hardware vendor. Right-click on this file and choose Write to disc. As we can see from the above fdisk output the disk currently has no partitions because it is a previously unused disk. The next step is to create a new partition on the disk, a task which is performed by entering n for new partition and p for primary partition :.

In this example we only plan to create one partition which will be partition 1. Next we need to specify where the partition will begin and end. Since this is the first partition we need it to start at the first available sector and since we want to use the entire disk we specify the last sector as the end. Note that if you wish to create multiple partitions you can specify the size of each partition by sectors, bytes, kilobytes or megabytes.

We now have a new disk installed, it is visible to RHEL 6 and we have configured a Linux partition on the disk. The next step is to create a Linux file system on the partition so that the operating system can use it to store files and data.

The easiest way to create a file system on a partition is to use the mkfs. Now that we have created a new filesystem on the Linux partition of our new disk drive we need to mount it so that it is accessible. In order to do this we need to create a mount point. A mount point is simply a directory or folder into which the filesystem will be mounted.

Running the mount command with no arguments shows us all currently mounted filesystems including our new filesystem :. Jump to: navigation , search. Navigation menu Personal tools. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. This page was last modified on 17 June , at Copyright Payload Media, Inc.