find a mirror of the redhat distro (not the cd iso) and you can download rawrite
from there (http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html)

> I bought a copy of Linux Mandrake 7.1 today and the install hung when trying
> to initialize the cd-rom. I got the error: "I could not mount a device on
> /dev/scd0". So I went to: <http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3>
> for the solution. I accessed this site with another box running Windows98 and
> downloaded the appropriate files. I was hoping to copy them to a regular
> floppy to reboot the other machine again, but, I can't get all of the first
> file (cdrom-aic7xxx.img) onto a single floppy!
> 
> A friend running Linux over in the UK offered this help:
> "The problem is that the boot floppy image you downloaded is just that - an
> image. You need to create the floppy but transferring the contents of the img
> file onto the raw floppy filesystem - rather than copying it as a file. (The
> patch floppy is just a plain copy of the patch file to a formatted disk). The
> problem here is that the method to transfer the image - 'dd' - is a Linux
> command! And
> you ain't got no Linux....
> Don't worry though, if you get your Linux CD running on the win machine, there
> should be a DOSUTILS directory with rawwrite and winrawwrite which are the
> DOS/win programs to do this for you in an MS world. Check out the readme file
> in the images directory off of the cdrom on how to create boot disks from img
> files in different situations."
> 
> I would really rather avoid installing Linux on my Windows machine as I
> already have another Pentium machine with a blank hard drive that is going to
> be exclusively Linux OS. That is, if I can get beyond the first 30 seconds of
> trying to install it! :-)
> 
> I was hoping someone local here around Phoenix wouldn't mind putting these
> files onto two floppies for me and I could meet them at the next meeting or
> somewhere else and exchange two clean floppies in return. I would be extremely
> grateful for this favor!!!
> 
> Again, thanks in advance for any help!
> Robert
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> Oscar Wilde observed: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The
> unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
> all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."