Happily, Dell has a set of the drivers available.

Sadly, they're part of a floppy image.

Grrr!

Enter Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1, a cool piece of shareware that can be glommed from http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

This operates along the same line as Microsoft's Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP, which mounts an ISO image and has it appear as a drive letter.

VFD does the same thing, it mounts an image file (or just creates a small chunk of RAM and treats it like a blank floppy) and you assign it a drive letter.

I loaded the application up -- it's pretty self-explanatory -- assigned to Drive B: and then launched Dell's Floppy making utility, told it to write to Drive B and bingo! I had my extracted files.

From there, it was trivial to copy them to the appropriate install media and we were off to the races.

(I finally searched for a virtual solution, when the one floppy disk I could find was throwing errors. How happy are we that those things have (mostly) gone the way of the dinosaur?)