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>Download appropriate driver from one of the two sites below and save the driver on one of the blank floppies. You can do this on any computer connected to Internet.
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>Insert the floppy with the driver tar ball into a working Linux computer and type:</P
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>mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
cp rhsmp-ft12014.tgz /tmp
tar xvzf /tmp/rhsmp-ft12014.tgz
cd /
umount /mnt/floppy</PRE
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>Label the floppy »Promise FastTrack driver« and set it aside.</P
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