Dual Boot Installation

Chad Krsek ckrsek at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 7 20:00:29 PST 2003


Hello,

I'm a Linux novice and am having problems setting up a
dual boot RedHat 8.0 / Win XP system.

The trouble is the RAID driver installation.

I have an ASUS P4PE mainboard with a Promise FastTrak
TX4000/376 RAID controller. 

I've downloaded files from the Promise website that
say they are the proper drivers for RedHat 8.0  and
7.3 and copied these files to an ext-2 formatted
floppy.

The Promise README says to boot the redhat
installation cd, and enter 'expert' at the boot
prompt.  I'm then supposed to insert the disk at the
'Devices' prompt and hit 'ok'.  When I do this the
installer tells me I don't have a valid redhat driver
disk.

I believe the floppy is ok because my laptop
installation of redhat 8.0 can read it.

Any advice?

Is the disk not readable?  I remember at UNIX class at
the JC years back they said I should type 'sync' after
I copy to a floppy to make sure the data is written. I
did that so I don't know whats wrong.

Thanks for your help.

Chad.
www.cheesearoundtheworld.com







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