live CD that has lots of drivers added. need to DD fiber channel drives (qlogic)

qsub · #1 23rd December 2009, 06:50 PM

Hi,

Im looking for a live cd that provides lots of driver support.

Mainly what I need to do is dd through fiber channel adapters. (ie. qlogic.)

Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

#2 23rd December 2009, 06:57 PM

Hello,
If you have tried fedora and its a no go I would next try CentOs and then Puppy. Puppy linux has some of the odd hardware support.

Hope this helps

Ky

Dies · #3 23rd December 2009, 08:42 PM

QLogic drivers are removed from Live CD's, probably because almost nobody using the Live CD needs them and it saves some space. Install livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts then edit /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-base.ks and comment out the section

Code:

# qlogic firmwares
-ql2100-firmware
-ql2200-firmware
-ql23xx-firmware
-ql2400-firmware

and rebuild with

Code:

su
livecd-creator --config='/usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks'

There you go your own spin with qlogic drivers included, you could also use revisor, but in my experience it doesn't work so well.