I am trying to install Linux Red Hat ES Server 3.0 onto new hardware. The install software does not recognize the hard drive (a Seagate), so I need to install a driver for the hard drive. Unfortunately the install software won't release the cd drive and expects the driver to be in the floppy drive. Unfortunately, this new computer has no floppy drive.

Does anyone have a workaround?

Thanks.

hi
i had the same problem with new ibm servers on segate's disks... my hardware shipped with installlation cd-rom (linux bootable ;-), this cd included software for building arrays and drivers for different os'es

good luck

step 1 - is the hard drive actually recognised in the BIOS?

step 2 - put the floppy disk in another drive on the network, export it, and maybe you can get at it over the network?

I finally got everything to work The bios did in fact recognize the hard drives. The motherboard is ASUS K8V SE Deluxe, which comes with on-board PROMISE and VIA (South Bridge). They were dual SEAGATE 80GB SATA which I tried configuring on PROMISE and VIA to no avail. RH installer couldnt see those drives.

When there was no floppy on the machine, it told me to insert the drivers disk into hdb, but wouldn't eject the installation CD. Not that it would have worked since the disk from the motherboard vendor wasn't in the required format anyway, but if it's going to tell me to insert a disk in the CD it really ought to let me do so.

So, on to step 2 - buy and install a floppy. Now it allows the option of using the floppy. But alas, you need a specially formatted floppy for this, and you need Linux in order to create it. Since this was to be the first Linux on the network there was no way to do that.

So what I finally did was dig out an old IDE drive and install to that. I then used that system to create the floppy, reconfigured the hardware back to the SATA setup, and was finally able to install. Never could get the PROMISE to work, but VIA is working fine. Mirrored drives, completely transparent to RH ES 3.0.