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

[Jeremy Sellors]

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