On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > Ok, here's my dumb question of the week (might have more next week). > Does SL 4.4 not support floppy drives?
I indeed does support floppy drives. You should check that your bios has the floppy enabled. Sometimes the floppy will show as a scsi device.(because it is really usb and usb shows as a scsi device) -Connie Sieh > > 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 >
