[Bug 341526] Re: [Feature Request] Add support for Dell Driver Injection Disk

[Timothy R. Chavez]

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Title:
  [Feature Request] Add support for Dell Driver Injection Disk

Status in “hw-detect” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “mountmedia” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “hw-detect” source package in Hardy:
  Won't Fix
Status in “mountmedia” source package in Hardy:
  Won't Fix
Status in “hw-detect” source package in Karmic:
  Fix Released
Status in “mountmedia” source package in Karmic:
  Fix Released
Status in Fedora:
  In Progress
Status in Suse Linux:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Upcoming Dell servers will be supporting a new technology called
  "Driver Injection Disks".  These are essentially read only flash
  drives that are connected internally on the USB bus containing drivers
  preloaded from the factory.

  They are intended to be used during OS installation for an OS release
  that doesn't yet include support for the drivers in a server natively.
  RHEL and SLES have both adopted it already into their installers.

  Here are the key points about it:
  1) It will show up as a VFAT disk with the label OEMDRV
  2) Drivers from many OSes may be contained on the VFAT disk at any given time.  This means that if a server is certified against Ubuntu 8.04, RHEL 5.3, Windows Server 2008, and Ubuntu 10.04, that drivers will be on for each of these OSes.  Because of this, it's important to account for possible collisions.  For Ubuntu releases, this is solved by shipping Ubuntu drivers in:
  $mnt/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -r -s).  Drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 will not be offered with Ubuntu 10.04 installs then.
  3) This VFAT disk will always be exposed as read only to the user during installation.  Using Dell supported tools however, it can be injected with updated drivers if the customer would like.
  4) This option should be preseedable, so in the event that Dell was to ship an Ubuntu server with Ubuntu preloaded, the drivers should be able to be installed from the Driver Injection Disk in the factory.
  5) When not preseeded, the customer should be offered the option to use the drivers on the Driver Injection Disk, with the default choice being No.

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