Install Ubuntu 9.10 Alternate on HighPoint RocketRAID SATA Drive without a floppy drive

[Steve]

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:08:35 -0000, Jeremy Sellors <jksellors at skyplex.net>  
wrote:

> Hi,
> The RocketRAID 174x SATA Controller Ubuntu Linux Installation Guid
> has instructions using a USB floppy drive which I do not has, so I am
> attempting to use a USB flash drive.
>
> I have a USB thumb/flash drive and partitioned it with ext3 and
> copied the HighPoint RocketRAID PCI Card (RR174x controller) drivers
> for Ubuntu 9.07 from the HighPoint site.
>
> Now I need to install the drivers so that the new install of Ubuntu
> 9.10 will recognize and boot from the rocketRAID SATA Drive.
>
>
> After all the components are installed from the install CD and the
> web I pressed the ALT+F2 to halt the install so that I can copy the
> driver files on the USB drive to /tmp/hptdd.
>
> fdisk -l shows the USB partition as /dev/sda1.
>
> How do I mount this drive and copy the files over to the /tmp/hpdd or
> is there a better way to achieve this?
>
> Regards …Jeremy
>
>
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=944494

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Steve