Ok, here's my dumb question of the week (might have more next week). Does SL 4.4 not support floppy drives?
Reason I ask is I have an Intel Server System SR1500AL (mother board is Intel Server Board S5000PAL), 1U rack mount, that came with two internal disks (set up to be RAID 1, mirrored), a CDROM drive, and a floppy drive. I need to add the Intel RAID driver at install time and Anaconda is only giving me the choice of sda (I'm assuming that's the hard disk) or hdb (is that the CDROM drive?) at the "Driver Disk Source" page. If I choose hdb and have the appropriate floppy loaded and hit "ok", it just comes back asking me to insert the driver disk again. I'm pretty sure the floppy device should be /dev/fdb (or fd0 or something like that). So, my suspicion is that SL 4.4 does not support floppies, which is a bummer since our entire legacy server installation and rebuild process (that I need to migrate to SL 4.4) is based on floppy diskette kickstarts. Now, pending resolution of that major hurdle, I'm wondering (assuming /dev/hdb is indeed the cdrom) how do I get the .img driver file properly onto a cdrom from my Windows desktop (none of our linux servers has a CD burner)? The rawrite program works only (I suspect) with floppies. I tried using Roxio to put the dd.img file on a cd-r, but that didn't seem to work either. I suspect it's not in the right format. When I open the cd on my Windows box, all I see is a file called dd.img, which, of course, I can't open. When I do the same with the floppy I created with rawrite, I can see the files contained in the dd.img. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/lnelson ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson
