I think root.bin might be a FAT image (gzipped image). Dunno about the drivers.
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > since my base-install floppies (potato) are completely outdated, I > decided to make new ones with uptodate *.bin for potential rescue > purposes. I am a little bit confused now, because after dd etc. I cannot > mount most of the floppies. It worked O.K. with the rescue.bin. It is > readable as -text2 and shows files, but it does not work with root.bin, > driver-1.bin and driver-2.bin. The older base-install *.bin had been > dd-ed under RedHat prior to install. John Leuner

