[clue-tech] Driver Disk?

[William]

I have an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 which suffers the dilemma of no modern 
Linux driver support for the on-board American Megatrends PERC 2/SC RAID 
controller. This machine is currently running CentOS 3, which installed 
without a hitch (which, apparently, included the last version of the 
megaraid driver that supports this RAID controller).

CentOS 4 will not install on this machine. Apparently, the megaraid 
drivers with CentOS 4 do not support this RAID controller. Fine; I 
hunted around with Google and found repeated recommendations to build my 
own driver disk, obviously from the existing CentOS 3 source. The 
problem is, I don't know how to build the megaraid driver from this 
source, nor how to actually fashion the driver disk

How do I create a driver disk from my existing CentOS 3 installation 
that will place the appropriate drivers onto floppy such that the CentOS 
4 installer can use them? Please be explicit in detail -- I don't know 
what it means to "build a new megaraid.ko", as written elsewhere.

Thanks for any help!

-- 
William

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