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<P>No worries about being a newcomer, we all have to start somewhere....</P>
<P>...first i need to figure out what the situation is.</P>
<P>Do you have a seperate computer that already has linux installed on it that you are going to use as the source of installation for the laptop? </P>
<P>Are you trying to make a drivers disk for your laptop on this extra computer?</P>
<P>What do you mean by mounting boot.img on your loop device?</P>
<P>Sorry about my ignorance, I'm just not quite sure what you are trying to do. We'll get this figured out for you.</P>
<P>Thanks for your input,</P>
<P>-Micky</P>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: sysmail@glade.net
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: discuss@ntlug.org
<DIV></DIV>>To: North Texas Linux Users Group <DISCUSS@NTLUG.ORG>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] driver disks
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:40:06 -0600 (CST)
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Howdy, all - hope I'm not being presumptuous for a newcomer...
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<DIV></DIV>>I want to install RedHat 7 on a laptop that lacks a working cdrom drive.
<DIV></DIV>>It has a supported ethernet interface, and the laptop came with a driver
<DIV></DIV>>file.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I would like to create a driver disk, but I can't figure out how to do
<DIV></DIV>>that.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I can find plenty of sites that explain how to use dd to put an .img file
<DIV></DIV>>on a diskette, but I don't know how to make the .img file.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I can successfully mount boot.img or bootnet.img on my loop device, and I
<DIV></DIV>>can 'ls' around in it, but if I try to mount drivers.img, I can't - I get
<DIV></DIV>>a bad superblock or wrong fs type error. It's probably either the fs type
<DIV></DIV>>or the block size, but I just can't hit the right combination.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Any suggestions appreciated,
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Carl
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<DIV></DIV>>Carl Haddick
<DIV></DIV>>sysmail@glade.net
<DIV></DIV>>GladeNet Communications
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