FYI, I've found that the problem with the Dells is usually boot-order related. If you want to use a physical USB floppy drive and you also have the virtual media floppy enabled, the physical USB floppy must come BEFORE the virtual media in the boot order. I'm not sure why it matters (maybe it can only assign one drive letter?), but it seems to make the difference if I'm having trouble getting the floppy to show up during WS03 setup.
Disabling virtual flash media is necessary because that will completely hang the setup process, so sometimes it's also easier to just leave it all off until setup is complete. -Bonnie From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 3:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR For those following along at home - if you get into this situation on a newer Dell model that has a DRAC card installed, you can use the Virtual Media feature to map a floppy image to a virtual floppy drive. Works great. -- Durf On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Murray Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Well, we have spent a lot of time on this, but we finally solved it, and I thought I'd share this with everyone. When we originally created the floppy disk with the drivers, we did it on a workstation with a standard floppy disk drive interface. We would then attach a USB floppy disk drive that we have to the new server, and that just wasn't getting the job done. So, we finally connected the USB floppy disk drive to our workstation and copied the necessary driver files to another diskette using the USB floppy disk drive. When we then connected the USB floppy disk drive to the new server, problem solved. I can't tell why this worked, but it did. Thanks for the suggestions. Murray -----Original Message----- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR Check your Bios again. Just because it recognizes the Drive in the Bios you will still need to change the appropriate setting in the Bios to allow it to use the USB Floppy. At least that is what we have had to do on some of ours. -----Original Message----- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR We're trying to build a new Windows Server 2K3, and since our server has no floppy drive, we're using a USB floppy and while the BIOS recognizes the drive, Windoes Server can't find the file it's looking for. We have also used a USB thumb wheel which we formated to look like a Floppy Drive, and same result. Unfortunately, Windows Server 2K3 will only look for the Hard drive drivers on a "floppy" disk. We have a HP Proliant ML110 and were trying to set up a raid. Any ideas on how to get around the floppy issue? Murray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
