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by mkdpeter

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I have a PowerEdge 2950 with two HDD in RAID1 configuration with a PERC6i controller.

I want to install Redhat Enterprise 4; but as a PERC6i drivers are not installed on the server I can't access to my HDD. So Dell recommande to install drivers during the system installation.

This is what I did:

1. I'd downloaded it on the Dell site. The package is release as a compressed tar file. Its name is megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-4-R193772.tar

2. For extracting the compressed file, I execute this command:

> tar -xzvf

The package contain the following files:
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-4.noarch.rpm
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-src
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21.dkms.spec
- dkms-2.0.19-1.noarch.rpm
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-4.txt

For creating the diskette(Driver Update Disk), I must use this commande:
> dd if= of=/dev/fd0

Normally this cmd allows to creat a Disk Image.
But, as you can see on my list (the contain of the package) no file has an img extension.

3. I tried to do it using these files (one by one) :
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-4.noarch.rpm
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-src
- megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21.dkms.spec
- dkms-2.0.19-1.noarch.rpm

eg: dd if=megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.21-4.noarch.rpm of=/dev/fd0

4. After preparing my DUD diskette, I start linux installation in an expert mode with this cmd: linux expert dd , then it asks me to provide my driver update disk. I do it and press ENTER but I receive this msg: the system where anable to mount the diskette.

I don't know what is wrong
How should I tape the commande for creating an DUD (Driver Update Diskette)?
Is it possible to creat a image file which will have an img extension?

Help please

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by charliespencer

Nice avatar.

Try the "Questions" forum; the "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

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