Driver Update Disk Handling anaconda-dracut takes advantage of dracut's hooks in order to load driver modules before the rest of the installer is executed. cmdline hook parse-anaconda-dd.sh parses the inst.dd/dd arguments for URIs and saves all of them into $dd_args and calls set_neednet if network is needed to retrieve a driver rpm The files will be downloaded when the network device online hook is executed. initqueue/online fetch-driver-net.sh If URLs are passed to inst.dd they are all downloaded into /tmp/DD-net/ pre-trigger hook driver-updates.sh Looks for devices labeled OEMDRV and starts the systemd service for the UI Also saves the initial state of the module list and uses udev to trigger loading of existing modules. pre-pivot hook driver-updates-net.sh Check for network downloaded driver rpms and start the systemd service to load the drivers. anaconda-depmod.sh If any drivers were installed or downloaded run depmod on the $NEWROOT Systemd Services driver-updates@.service and driver-updates-net@.service These services launch the driver update UI (/bin/driver-updates). The -net version passes the path to the rpm's that have been downloaded from the network. They handle connecting the tty so that the user can select drivers if inst.dd has been passed on the cmdline. driver-updates This searches disks labeled OEMDRV for driver update repositories and optionally lets the user pick individual drivers. It will also search unlabeled devices if they are passed on the kernel cmdline with inst.dd=/dev/sdb2 Pass it the path to a directory of rpms (eg. downloaded from the network) and it will install them before checking for additional OEMDRV labeled devices. Pass inst.dd with no parameters and it will prompt the user for specific drivers to load using a simple text user interface.