Centos 4.0 on SC440 SATA

[Barry Wiseman]

I am trying to get this OS installed on this server.  The distro CD of course does 
not recognize the SATA controller.  My assumptions (right or wrong) are:

1.  I need the ata_piix driver found on the Server Installation CD.

2.  I create a driver diskette by dd'ing the ata_piix-1.02c-rhel4-G-multiarch-dd.img 
file onto a floppy.

3.  Floppy drive, hmmm... I have located a specimen of this 20th century hardware 
device in my boneyard, hung it on the SC440 and gotten it to (possibly) work.

4.  I install the driver from the diskette by booting the Centos 4.0 CD with "linux 
dd" and then following the prompts to install the driver.

I boot into Setup, change the default diskette device from USB to Internal, then 
proceed as above.  Sure enough, the install detects the fd0 device and offers to read 
  driver files from it.  The diskette drive then kicks briefly, and errors out.  The 
portion of the message not obscured by the following dialog box reads:

      or -2147483630 reading header: cpio: read failed - No such file or directory

Well, the floppy is not a cpio archive, it's a mountable filesys:

total 105
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           23 Jun 14  2005 disk-info
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           59 Jun 14  2005 modinfo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       102128 Jun 14  2005 modules.cgz
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           26 Jun 14  2005 modules.dep
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          588 Jun 14  2005 modules.pcimap
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          698 Jun 14  2005 pci.ids
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          370 Jun 14  2005 pcitable
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           27 Jun 14  2005 rhdd

I would begin by verifying the diskette drive I'm using actually works (a step I've 
skipped thus far), but I suspect I'm going a lot wronger than that.  Any guidance is 
much appreciated.


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