For those following along at home - if you get into this situation on a newer Dell model that has a DRAC card installed, you can use the Virtual Media feature to map a floppy image to a virtual floppy drive. Works great.
-- Durf On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Murray Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, we have spent a lot of time on this, but we finally solved it, and > I thought I'd share this with everyone. When we originally created the > floppy disk with the drivers, we did it on a workstation with a standard > floppy disk drive interface. We would then attach a USB floppy disk > drive that we have to the new server, and that just wasn't getting the > job done. So, we finally connected the USB floppy disk drive to our > workstation and copied the necessary driver files to another diskette > using the USB floppy disk drive. When we then connected the USB floppy > disk drive to the new server, problem solved. I can't tell why this > worked, but it did. Thanks for the suggestions. > > > Murray > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:41 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR > > Check your Bios again. Just because it recognizes the Drive in the Bios > you will still need to change the appropriate setting in the Bios to > allow it to use the USB Floppy. At least that is what we have had to do > on some of ours. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:00 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR > > We're trying to build a new Windows Server 2K3, and since our server has > no floppy drive, we're using a USB floppy and while the BIOS recognizes > the drive, Windoes Server can't find the file it's looking for. We have > also used a USB thumb wheel which we formated to look like a Floppy > Drive, and same result. Unfortunately, Windows Server 2K3 will only look > for the Hard drive drivers on a "floppy" disk. We have a HP Proliant > ML110 and were trying to set up a raid. Any ideas on how to get around > the floppy issue? > > > Murray > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
