Thanks again Connie!
I'll check the [Auto] setting on Monday and see if it's got an [Enabled]
setting. That may do it....
But, given that I may just not be able to use the floppy, I still don't
understand how you get a driver .img file onto a cd-r. After all, systems
*are* being shipped these days sans floppy drives.
- Larry
Connie Sieh wrote on 3/23/2007 3:20 PM:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
>
>> Thanks Connie!
>>
>> In the bios, under "Advanced", I see:
>>
>> +--------------------------------------------------------+
>> - Processor Configuration
>> - Memory Configuration
>> - ATA Controller Configuration
>> - Serial Port Configuration
>> - USB Configuration
>> - PCI Configuration
>> - System Acoustic and Performance Configuration
>> +--------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>> Ok, I'm assuming it can't be in the ATA Controller Configuration.
>> Everything there is Enabled anyway.
>>
>> In the USB Configuration, I see:
>>
>> +--------------------------------------------------------+
>> - Detected USB Devices
>> 1 Drive
>>
>> - USB Controller [Enabled]
>> - Legacy USB Support [Disabled]
>> - Port 60/64 Emulation [Disabled]
>>
>> - USB Mass Storage Device Configuration
>> - Device Reset Timeout [20 sec]
>>
>> - Storage Emulation
>> - TEAC FD-05PUB 3000 [Auto]
>
> This looks like the floppy. Any choice there other than "auto".
>
> -Connie Sieh
>> - USB 2.0 Controller [Enabled]
>> +-------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>> Now, I hope you don't say I have to enable the Legacy USB Support
>> and the Port 60/64 Emulation, because (from a previous posting last
>> month) I have to have those disabled otherwise the keyboard and
>> mouse don't work.
>>
>> Side question: is the "1 Drive" it detected the cdrom or the floppy?
>>
>> Further data points:
>> Under the "Boot Options" in the BIOS, I see:
>>
>> +-------------------------------------------------------+
>> - Boot Option #1 [PATA: SR244W ...]
>> - Boot Option #2 [Intel(R) MB RAID]
>> - Boot Option #3 [IBA GE Slot 0500 v...]
>> - Boot Option #4 [[EFI Shell]]
>> +-------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>> Is one of the above a floppy?
>>
>> Ideas?
>> - Larry
>>
>> Connie Sieh wrote on 3/23/2007 2:33 PM:
>>> 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
>>>>
>>
>>
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