I know quite a few people have already asked in other threads but I was hoping that somebody could perhaps reply with a how to and make this thread a sticky.... Can anybody assist in extracting the drivers from gnoboot and add them to nanoboot would really appreciate it if it is possible at all.
update1) so looking at the gnoboot version which load my network drivers, I can see that all the drivers are located under /usr/lib/modules/. Would it suffice to copy them into the same path under nanoboot or is there more to it?
update2) Loaded a vm image of nanoboot and using winscp I can browse to the modules directory. Installing gnoboot vm now...
update3) Success! copying the drivers from gnoboot /lib/modules using winscp to /lib/modules on nanoboot worked. Steps are:
create two vm's one for gnoboot, other for nanoboot and install the pat file on both
enable telnet/ssh service on both
using scp protocol in winscp copy modules directory to local disk from /lib/
copy the drivers from within the modules directory to /lib/modules in nanboot
powerdown the nanoboot vm
download the vmdk file from the datastore
use starwind v2v image converter to convert the vmdk to a raw .img file
use img image tool to mount the img file and make any changes to the serial etc
unload and finally write the img file to usb using usb image tool
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I know quite a few people have already asked in other threads but I was hoping that somebody could perhaps reply with a how to and make this thread a sticky.... Can anybody assist in extracting the drivers from gnoboot and add them to nanoboot would really appreciate it if it is possible at all.
update1) so looking at the gnoboot version which load my network drivers, I can see that all the drivers are located under /usr/lib/modules/. Would it suffice to copy them into the same path under nanoboot or is there more to it?
update2) Loaded a vm image of nanoboot and using winscp I can browse to the modules directory. Installing gnoboot vm now...
update3) Success! copying the drivers from gnoboot /lib/modules using winscp to /lib/modules on nanoboot worked. Steps are:
create two vm's one for gnoboot, other for nanoboot and install the pat file on both
enable telnet/ssh service on both
using scp protocol in winscp copy modules directory to local disk from /lib/
copy the drivers from within the modules directory to /lib/modules in nanboot
powerdown the nanoboot vm
download the vmdk file from the datastore
use starwind v2v image converter to convert the vmdk to a raw .img file
use img image tool to mount the img file and make any changes to the serial etc
unload and finally write the img file to usb using usb image tool
test nanoboot loads your drivers
TIA
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