[ILUG] scsi problems

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Shirley Louise Coffie (shirleydayco at hotmail.com):

> I'm currently taking over a server build project from a co worker that
> is leaving the company.  He has loaded RedHat Linux Kernel 2.2.x, I've
> been trying to do a repair, but won't recognize the scsi drives.  I
> have the driver from HP but won't fit onto floppy since it was
> formatted in winblows, and has only 1.38MB of disk space when I need
> obviously 1.4MB

Way back when, I had to solve some similar sort of problem.  I think
the problem was transporting a 4MB XFree86 upgrade RPM to a Linux machine
lacking network support.  So, I found CHOP.EXE for MS-DOS, and kept a 
copy around on my personal machine:

http://linuxmafia.com/pub/ms-dos/

It lets you chop a large binary file into a number of small ones, e.g.,
ones small enough to fit on MS-DOS-formatted 1.44 MB floppies.  On the 
Linux end, you use the mtools to copy the files, e.g.:

  mcopy a:piece1  .
  (repeat with other floppies bearing other pieces)

Then, you use something like the "cat" command to reassemble the
original large file from the pieces:

  cat piece1 piece2 piece3 > drivers.tar.gz

But, honestly, is it possible that you could get the same effect by 
just recompiling the kernel sources on your Red Hat CD?  Whatever works 
for you is obviously fine, though.

-- 
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Rick Moen                                       -- Charles O. Baucum, Jr.
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