[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 and Driver Disks

Sun Oct 19 21:20:57 UTC 2008
Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz>

>
> That part is probably a typo. It says to use a FDD or USB removable storage
> for the driver disk image. Either expand it to a floppy, which the server
> probably doesn't have, or put it unexpanded onto a USB flash drive.
> Then boot from the built in optical drive and use the linux dd command.
>
> Or you can use
> linux
> dd=http://130.217.247.31/~clintd/R905/rhel5-sata_svw-2.10.6-manykernels-dd.img
> (watch the wrap, above should be on one line) to pull it off your webserver if
> you give the setup a proper gateway address so it can reach outside.
>
>
>   

Hi, tried this and it appears to work, but the DVD is still unusable.  
So its unfortunate but not a  show stopper :).  Thanks for the assistance.

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