AT wrote:

Hi guys,

Anyone tried installing Redhat over the network using USB floppy drive?
Assuming the only way to install is thru the netwrok (FTP) using USB floppy
drive (no IDE cdrom/floppy,no USB cdrom available)

I create a network boot disk and was successful booting on the said floppy
disk thru the USB floppy drive. But when I was prompt for the driver disk,
it prompts me an error message: Failed to mount floppy.
It seems like it cannot mount USB floppy drive when I try to install the
driver disk.
Seems like theres a problem mounting the USB floppy as /dev/sda.


you've successfully booted from a USB floppy since the device was handled by BIOS and you cant mount the device due to the absence of the necessary kernel modules such as usbxxx, usbyyy, etc.

for more info, visit this link:
   http://gold.cchem.berkeley.edu/~heidi/portege/boot.html#usbfloppy



HTH




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