Converting a third party driver floppy to a CD-ROM

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Situation

At times a third party driver disk is required during installation to provide support for certain hardware. Most often, these disks are floppy images. On systems without floppy drives this is problematic, and a driver CD-ROM makes more sense.

Resolution

To convert a driver floppy to a driver CD-ROM perform the following steps:

Obtain and uncompress the driver floppy image.
Mount the floppy image:
# mount -o loop driverdisk.img /mnt
Generate a CD-ROM .iso image:
# mkisofs -R -J -o driverdisk.iso /mnt
Dismount the floppy image:
# umount /mnt

The .iso image can now be burned to a CD-ROM and used instead of the driver floppy.

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