On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 Mar 2010, at 01:43, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Stroller >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Gernot, >>> >> Here the information from the "version information": >> >> Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 - Enterprise >> Version 1.30 >> 2008-2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. > > Ok, so you have the good one.
Hello Stroller, Thanks for the feedback and for solving my problem. >>> On 23 Mar 2010, at 11:33, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: >>>> >> 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". > > Am sending you a screenshot off-list. But note that this only relates to the > VFlash configuration, the SDcard that fits inside the iDRAC unit itself. That saved me! now I can configure the drive(s) so that I can boot from an ISO image. It was very hard to see that I needed to click on that text (after trying clicking on various screens at various places until now). >> OK. That makes sense. I do not find any way to set up or select >> "floppy" drives ... > > This is unrelated to the configuration within the main web-interface. The CD > and floppy emulation is completely separate. OK, I've now activated floppy emulation in the configuration section (wipes sweat). > If you wanted to mount a virtual floppy - say a bootable DOS disk - I think > you would put that in your local laptop and use `dd if=/dev/fd0 > of=~/floppy.img`. Then you could mount that using the virtual media menu > from the console's drop-down. Got it. >> 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 don't think you can do this. Where is the USB drive located? Remotely from > the server? Yes. And no, I could not find it advertised, just that one can mount a USB drive. I assumed that meant one could read and write. > I can only think you can boot with a LiveCD, mount the drive(s) and then tar > via an ssh connection, use scp or similar. I see. OK, Clonezilla can use SSH or NFS drives also as destinations so not critical to have mounted writable USB drive, just nice to have. > During the boot sequence I see in BIOS two messages about Virtual drives, > one handled by BIOS, can't remember what the other one says (it's just gone > off the screen). Then there is mention of the iDRAC, its network settings > and a message to press CTRL-E to enter its configuration. This leads you to > an iDRAC-specific BIOSy page; under "Virtual Media Configuration" I have > "Auto-Attach" enabled. We'll see what happens now that I have marked what seems to be the equivalent of "auto-attach". > I believe the VFlash can behave somewhat as a USB mass storage device, but > only of 256meg (512meg using a Dell-branded SDcard). I have not been > successful in getting this working (see my previous thread "Booting with > iDRAC6 VFlash - Linux Live CD or similar", 6th March) although I now see > that I didn't have it enabled in the CTRL-E BIOS. Many thanks, this list is a life-saver of true excellence! Best regards from Tokyo, 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
