
Imaging Utilities and Options 485
Novell Confidential Manual (99a) 28 October 2003
Network drivers are stored in \drivers\net
PCMCIA drivers are stored in \drivers\pcmcia
Block drivers are stored in \drivers\block
SCSI drivers are stored in \drivers\scsi
Miscellaneous drivers are stored in \drivers\misc
These drivers can also be added to an imaging boot CD, hard-disk partition, or for use with Preboot
Services. For more information, see “Preparing an Imaging Boot CD” on page 448 and “Adding
Linux Drivers to Your Boot Device or Method” on page 449.
Obtaining Linux Drivers
To obtain a Linux driver for your particular hardware, visit the Web site of the hardware vendor
and check for a download location.
There are also some other Web sites where you can obtain drivers:
Network drivers can be downloaded from the Scyld Computing Corporation (http://
www.scyld.com). Click Network Drivers.
PCMCIA drivers can be downloaded from the Linux PCMCIA Information Page (http://
pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net).
You can also get additional Linux drivers at the Novell ZENworks Cool Solutions Web
Community (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/zenworks/features/a_linux_drivers_zw.html).
To learn more about drivers, including the loading parameters you need to specify, see the Linux
Documentation Project (http://www.linuxdoc.org) and visit the following HOWTO (http://
www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html) sites:
Hardware
PCMCIA
SCSI
Ethernet
Using Zimgboot.exe to Create a Language Disk
If you use the Boot Disk Creator to create boot diskettes, and if you choose a non-English keyboard
in the Language/Country field of the Boot Disk Creator dialog box, you can click Create Language
Disk to create a language diskette that will be used to boot the workstation with the imaging
diskettes in the non-English language you chose. The diskette you use must be an empty,
formatted, high-density diskette. Do not reuse an old imaging diskette unless you reformat it first.
Using Zimgboot.exe to Create a Utility Disk
You can use the Boot Disk Creator to create a diskette that contains Linux utilities such as df
(shows disk usage), fdisk, less, more, host (performs DNS lookups in order to convert DNS names
to IP addresses), ldd (shows shared library dependencies), pico (text editor), sed (stream file
editor), and touch (changes file time stamps). These utilities are not needed to perform imaging,
but they may be useful to you for debugging purposes when imaging is booted to manual or
maintenance mode.
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