On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:

> Ok, here's my dumb question of the week (might have more next week).
> Does SL 4.4 not support floppy drives?

I indeed does support floppy drives.
You should check that your bios has the floppy enabled.  Sometimes the 
floppy will show as a scsi device.(because it is really usb and usb shows 
as a scsi device)

-Connie Sieh

> 
> Reason I ask is I have an Intel Server System SR1500AL (mother board
> is Intel Server Board S5000PAL), 1U rack mount, that came with two
> internal disks (set up to be RAID 1, mirrored), a CDROM drive, and
> a floppy drive.  I need to add the Intel RAID driver at install
> time and Anaconda is only giving me the choice of sda (I'm assuming
> that's the hard disk) or hdb (is that the CDROM drive?) at the "Driver
> Disk Source" page.  If I choose hdb and have the appropriate floppy
> loaded and hit "ok", it just comes back asking me to insert the
> driver disk again.  I'm pretty sure the floppy device should be
> /dev/fdb (or fd0 or something like that).
> 
> So, my suspicion is that SL 4.4 does not support floppies, which
> is a bummer since our entire legacy server installation and rebuild
> process (that I need to migrate to SL 4.4) is based on floppy
> diskette kickstarts.
> 
> Now, pending resolution of that major hurdle, I'm wondering
> (assuming /dev/hdb is indeed the cdrom) how do I get the .img
> driver file properly onto a cdrom from my Windows desktop (none
> of our linux servers has a CD burner)?  The rawrite program works
> only (I suspect) with floppies.  I tried using Roxio to put the
> dd.img file on a cd-r, but that didn't seem to work either.
> I suspect it's not in the right format.  When I open the cd on
> my Windows box, all I see is a file called dd.img, which, of
> course, I can't open.  When I do the same with the floppy I
> created with rawrite, I can see the files contained in the dd.img.

> 
> Thanks!
> - Larry
>