Re: Driver Update

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:19:23 +0200, Poul Lindholm Christiansen
<plc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi

I'm a newbee at linux, so the questions may seem rather simple, but i seem
to be stuck.

I have purchased a new computer without an OS because I wanted to install
openSuse 10.2.
I have then downloaded the DVD and started the installation from that.

It then turns out that the installation program does not support the SATA
controller that is on my motherboard.

Both CD/DVD and HD is on SATA
There is no floppy disk

I have the downloaded the driver that it seems I should use.
This contains a driverdisk img-file that according to the readme I should
use rawwritewin.exe to move onto a floppy disk.
My windows is also a quite new computer, so that does not have a floppy
drive either.
That meens that rawwritewin doesn't seem to be the right tools for me.

Now I seem to be stuck.

It seems USB is working on my Linux computer, so I've been trying to get the
contents of the driverdisk onto a usb stick.
I just cant get that to work - the setup program doens't seem to want to
read this as a driver disk.

Can someone please help me with what to do in this case where I don't have a
floppy?

Use mkisofs to create an iso file with the driver floppy image as the boot
image, and burn that to a CD. Or get a USB floppy drive.


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