On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:19:23 +0200, Poul Lindholm Christiansen <plc@mulleland.dk> wrote: > > > Hi > > I'm a newbee at linux, so the questions may seem rather simple, but i seem > to be stuck. > > I have purchased a new computer without an OS because I wanted to install > openSuse 10.2. > I have then downloaded the DVD and started the installation from that. > > It then turns out that the installation program does not support the SATA > controller that is on my motherboard. > > Both CD/DVD and HD is on SATA > There is no floppy disk > > I have the downloaded the driver that it seems I should use. > This contains a driverdisk img-file that according to the readme I should > use rawwritewin.exe to move onto a floppy disk. > My windows is also a quite new computer, so that does not have a floppy > drive either. > That meens that rawwritewin doesn't seem to be the right tools for me. > > Now I seem to be stuck. > > It seems USB is working on my Linux computer, so I've been trying to get the > contents of the driverdisk onto a usb stick. > I just cant get that to work - the setup program doens't seem to want to > read this as a driver disk. > > Can someone please help me with what to do in this case where I don't have a > floppy? > Use mkisofs to create an iso file with the driver floppy image as the boot image, and burn that to a CD. Or get a USB floppy drive. -- Do not pick the flowers.