I need just two small patches...

What he is suggesting does not require you to install
linux on your windows system. Simply use the utilities
in the directory to create those floppies you need.

--- Robert Byrnes <robertbyrnes@home.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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."
>

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