•Red Hat and SLES Linux
Linux supports the use of USB diskette drives. Refer to the "Mounting USB Virtual Floppy in Linux ("Mounting USB Virtual Media Floppy in Linux" on page 49)" section for
Mounting USB Virtual Media Floppy in Linux
1.Access RILOE II through a browser.
2.Select Virtual Media in the Virtual Devices tab.
3.Select a diskette drive or diskette image and click Connect.
4.Load the USB drivers, using the following commands: modprobe usbcore
modprobe
5.Load the SCSI disk driver, using the following command: modprobe sd_mod
6.Mount the floppy drive, using the following command: mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
NOTE: Use the man mount command for additional file system types.
The floppy device can be used as a Linux file system, if formatted as such, with the mount command. However,
drive v: file="/dev/sda" exclusive
This modification enables the mtools suite to access the Virtual Floppy as v. For example:
mcopy /tmp/XXX.dat v:
mdir v:
mcopy v:foo.dat /tmp/XXX
Virtual Floppy screen
The Virtual Floppy screen provides the status of the Virtual Floppy, the ability to load a Virtual Floppy image, and the ability to change Virtual Floppy settings.
Uploading a diskette image to the remote server
The Insert Floppy Image option allows you to send a diskette image file to RILOE II on the remote host server. RILOE II treats the diskette image file as a standard diskette.
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