The connected drive icon and LED changes state to reflect the current status of the Virtual Floppy Drive.

To use an image file:

1.Select Local Image File within the Virtual Floppy section of the Virtual Media applet.

2.Enter the path or file name of the image in the text box, or click Browse to locate the image file using the Choose Disk Image File dialog. To ensure the source diskette or image file is not modified during use, select the Force read-only access option.

3.Click Connect.

The connected drive icon and LED changes state to reflect the current status of the Virtual Floppy drive. When connected, the virtual devices are available to the host server until you close the Virtual Media applet. When you are finished using the Virtual Floppy, you can either select to disconnect the device from the host server or close the applet.

NOTE: The Virtual Media applet must remain open in your browser as long as you continue to use a Virtual Media Device.

RILOE II Virtual Floppy is available to the host server at run time if the operating system on the host server supports USB floppy drives. See "Operating System USB Support (on page 57)" for information on which operating systems support USB mass storage at the time of the publication of this manual.

RILOE II Virtual Floppy appears to your operating system just like any other drive. When using RILOE II for the first time, the host operating system might prompt you to complete a New Hardware Found wizard.

When you are finished using RILOE II Virtual Media and disconnect it, you might receive a warning message from the host operating system regarding unsafe removal of a device. This warning can be avoided by using the operating system-provided feature to stop the device before disconnecting it from the Virtual Media.

Virtual Floppy operating systems notes

•MS-DOS

During boot and during an MS-DOS session, the Virtual Floppy device displays as a standard BIOS floppy drive. This device will display as drive A. An existing physically attached floppy drive is obscured and unavailable during this time. You cannot use a physical local floppy drive and the Virtual Floppy simultaneously.

•Windows® 2000 SP3 or later and Windows® Server 2003

Virtual Floppy drives display automatically after Microsoft® Windows® has recognized the mounting of the USB device. Use it as you would a locally attached device.

To use Virtual Floppy during a Windows® installation to provide a driver diskette, disable the integrated diskette drive in the host RBSU which forces the Virtual Floppy to appear as drive A.

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