Dual Boot Installation

[Dustin Mollo]

I'd bet dollars to donuts that your problem is that you formatted the disk
as something other than FAT.  I don't think I've seen a RH driver disk that
uses anything else.  I'd also point out that the intructions for making the
promise driver disk specifically mention using a Windows-based box, which
would indicate to use a FAT floppy.  Doesn't mean you have to create the
driver disk using windows, but if that's what they used for their example,
I'd say you have a 99.999% chance that the floppy should be FAT.

Good luck,

-Dustin

P.S. - I'm sure others here can speak more to this, but in general, you
don't want to use ext2/3 for floppies - it's rather wasteful of space on a
"partition" that small.

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:00:29PM -0800, Chad Krsek wrote:
> 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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