[NTLUG:Discuss] driver disks

[Kyle Davenport]

     Yes, you boot with bootnet.img (already there on the cd) (just dd it to
diskette).  The trick is accessing the cd iso image with NFS.   If you have
another linux installation and can export the cdrom drive, that should work.  If
you have only the iso file, you would mount with the loopback device and copy
the Redhat directory to the root directory of a partition or exported directory.
The install will ask you where this Redhat directory is.
       I should warn you that this process worked flawlessly for me for 6.2 and
earlier, but I think they broke something in 7.0.  It is an unaddressed issue in
Redhat Support Mailing Lists (when last I looked).

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sysmail at glade.net on 03/01/2001 04:40:06 PM

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Subject:  [NTLUG:Discuss] driver disks



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