Dual Boot Installation

[Chad Krsek]

Hey,

I did it from XP on a fat disk and it worked.

Thanks for the help.
Chad.



--- Dustin Mollo <dustin at sonic.net> wrote:
> 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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