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Operating System USB Support
Different operating systems provide varying levels of USB support. iLO uses the
The HP server ROM provides support at server boot time for Virtual Media. The Virtual Floppy will be available at boot time regardless of the server operating system.
The following server operating systems do not support USB media and, therefore, do not have access to Virtual Media during operating system run time:
•MS-DOS®
•Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0
•Linux Red Hat (before 7.2)
•SuSE Linux (before 7.0)
•Novell NetWare 5.x and 6
Certain Linux operating systems do not correctly support USB Virtual Media drives at operating system install time. The iLO Virtual Media should not be used during the installation of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7.
Windows® 95 OSR 1 does not support any USB devices. Therefore, SmartStart 5.x CDs cannot be used with the iLO Virtual Media.
The following table lists operating system USB capabilities and the corresponding iLO Virtual Media capabilities.