On 12 Mar 2010, at 17:12, Rainer M. Canavan wrote: > On Mar 12, 2010, at 17:22 , Stroller wrote: > >> If you're using the DRAC to mount the .iso image as "virtual media" >> and boot the system that way, then it should be seen as a local drive >> to the host machine. I fear other responses may be clupea rubra. >> >> Try it with an XP CD or another distro - E.G. systemrescueCD. The >> virtual media drive should appear as /dev/sr0 or something. > > or /dev/cdrom0 or /dev/scd0 or similar. With DRAC 5 or 6, you should > see plug/unplug events in dmesg, syslog or the logging console > whenever > you connect or disconnect the virtual media.
In his case, he presumably won't be able to do that, because he's trying to install. I would assume the only o/s he has at present is on the CD on the DRAC's virtual CD drive. >> Here's a system booted on the virtual media of an iDRAC6: >> >> r...@sysresccd /root % ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb- >> iDRAC_Virtual_CD_20080519-0:0 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-03-11 18:56 /dev/disk/by-id/usb- >> iDRAC_Virtual_CD_20080519-0:0 -> ../../sr1 >> r...@sysresccd /root % > > DRAC5 and DRAC6 use USB mass storage, which should work without > any special drivers, as long as the installation medium supports > USB mass storage or CDROM devices. DRAC4 on the other hand uses > a Silicon Image IDE controller, which may not be recognized > by really ancient Linux install CDs. Hmmm.... for some reason I misread the 5 in the subject as referring to the DRAC5 generation. Seems like the OP doesn't state the DRAC version he's using. I've however had a lot of success with the DRAC4 & Linux Live CDs - Knoppix, the Gparted live CD & (I'm sure) SystemRescueCD have all worked. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
