On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gernot, > > Firstly, what model of iDRAC6 do you have? I'm looking at the Enterprise > model on my screen right now. The "Express" has fewer features.
Hello and many thanks for the reply. Excuse the strange information at times below---my interface is Japanese so I am trying to guess what the English terms might be in places! Here the information from the "version information": Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 - Enterprise Version 1.30 2008-2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. > On 23 Mar 2010, at 11:33, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: >> >> The problem is that when I want to configure virtual media at the >> system -> console/media web interface there is only a display of the >> current settings (detached) but no "configuration" option like is >> mentioned in the online iDRAC instructions. > > I believe this relates only to the VFlash virtual media, and not CD-ROM > emulation. The "configuration" is in black letters immediately underneath > the tabs. But ignore this if you want to mount an iso image. Any chance I can send you a screen shot? There is no such wording that I can see, only two "tables", one for "console redirect" and one for "virtual media", both contain uneditable lines of two colums each : a parameter and a value. The value for the first parameter in the "virtual media" table which I think could be translated as "status" says "detached". >> So when I open a console and then try to select virtual media (CD >> drive) from the virtual media menu, there are some images, and I can >> add images, but they are "read-only" and pressing the "complete >> mapping" button results in an error message. Also, booting the server >> and pressing F2 to enter the BIOS menu shows no virtual drives to boot >> from (even when I have a CD in the drive, or have added a an image and >> selected boot from virtual CD in the web admin interface). > > I click "Add Image..." and can browse to an .iso file. They *should* be read > only, I think, because you just want to boot from them, the image should be > of an installation CD. You wouldn't want to write to them. OK. That makes sense. I do not find any way to set up or select "floppy" drives, and what I am looking for is a way to attach a USB drive in a way to write to it (for making a backup) > I can click the "Mapped" checkbox next to my "C:\Path\to\image.iso" and see > no error. I see no "complete mapping" button. Sorry, that is a translation issue, we are speaking about the same thing here. But when I click on the "Mapped" checkbox I get an error (translation follows): "Either the virtual media is detached, or else the console redirect is already in use". > I see "Virtual Floppy" and "Virtual CD" by going into BIOS via F2, then > "Boot Settings" and "Boot Sequence". I think the ordering may be the > unexpected way around. Nothing in my boot sequence on F2 about virtual drives, only the local hard drive, the MD1000 hard drive and one more (maybe network but I forget, and I cannot reboot the machine right now). > I have definitely booted my system and installed an o/s using the Virtual CD > this way. Maybe I misunderstand: apart from the ability to boot with a virtual CD (which is one thing I am trying to do) I am also trying to mount a USB device to write to from the system that I boot up from CD (Clonezilla which makes a backup of the disk(s) ). Many thanks, Gernot Hassenpflug _______________________________________________ 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
