Reading a .img file 2

[mackey333]

Hi all, I have a driver disk image from a manufacturer (came with blahblahblah.img and rawrite.exe). I am trying to install linux on my laptop, and will need this driver durring the installation (it's for a raid controller). However, I do not have a floppy drive. The rawrite.exe will only allow me to give it an a: or b: drive letter. So, I made my usb thumb drive a: and then it complained about not being able to determine the number of sectors on the disk or something to that effect. So, what I need to do is get the files out of the .img file and onto my thumb drive so that I can do the installation.

-Greg :-Q

 

[linney]

There is some information here which might be useful?

Error Message:Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in you
thread779-972802

What about a USB Floppy drive?

 

[mackey333]

True this would work (and I hadn't thought of it), however since I'm working on a laptop I'm not sure that the motherboard even has a connection for a floppy drive (in fact I'd bet on it). I have also tried to use some programs to open the .img file, but it seems that the file may be specific to the rawrite program it comes with. That being said,

Would someone be willing to put the img file on a disk and email me back the files?

The driver is located at (the first one on the list, 1.00.0.24):

http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=104&category=driver&os=1&go=GO#

The file is in tar.gz format, which I know winzip will open. My email is gms5002 at psu.edu...thanks in advance to anyone who has a minute to spare to help me out with this!

-Greg :-Q

 

[wolluf]

greg - hopefuly I've just sent them to you

 

[mackey333]

Thanks for your help, ill let you know how it turns out...

-Greg :-Q