[lug] External USB floppy drives and driver diskettes

[Hugh Brown]

karl horlen wrote:
>> I generally burn a CD.  I don't have the mkisofs (or
>> whatever it's 
>> called now) options handy, but you can create a
>> bootable CD from any 
>> bootable 1.44 MB image.
> 
> As stated in the other post, I'm not looking to boot
> in the case I mentioned.  The installer is running and
> I tell it to load a driver a disk.  By default it
> looks for a floppy.  It needs to see the attached
> device not boot from it.
> 
> If I can convert the driver diskette into a CD driver
> disk fine.  But I'm not sure if ejecting the installer
> CD that was used to load the installer and replacing
> it with the driver CD will trip up the installer once
> teh driver update proceeds.  Or if the installer is
> even smart enough to look for and see the CD drive
> versus the floppy at that point.  So was wondering if
> anybody has actually done a Driver CD successfully.
> 
> This is based on CentOS dd of course. 
> 


I think you'd be able to put the driver on a cd and have it prompt you 
for the cd.  If it needs the first CD back, it will likely ask you.  Do 
you know that you'll need the driver disk.  It's been a long time since 
I've come across disk/nic that wasn't supported by the install kernel. 
As long as disk/nic work, you can install the base system and add 
support for whatever esoterica you have after.

Hugh