[NTLUG:Discuss] driver disks

[sysmail@glade.net]

Howdy, all - hope I'm not being presumptuous for a newcomer...

I want to install RedHat 7 on a laptop that lacks a working cdrom drive.
It has a supported ethernet interface, and the laptop came with a driver
file.

I would like to create a driver disk, but I can't figure out how to do
that.

I can find plenty of sites that explain how to use dd to put an .img file
on a diskette, but I don't know how to make the .img file.

I can successfully mount boot.img or bootnet.img on my loop device, and I
can 'ls' around in it, but if I try to mount drivers.img, I can't - I get
a bad superblock or wrong fs type error.  It's probably either the fs type
or the block size, but I just can't hit the right combination.

Any suggestions appreciated,

Carl

Carl Haddick
sysmail at glade.net
GladeNet Communications