Installation Manual

Operating system considerations: Virtual Floppy/USB key
• Boot process and DOS sessions—During the boot process and DOS sessions, the virtual
floppy device appears as a standard BIOS floppy drive (drive A). If a physically attached
floppy drive exists, it is unavailable at this time. You cannot use a physical local floppy drive
and a virtual floppy drive simultaneously.
• Windows Server 2008 or later—Virtual Floppy/USB key drives appear automatically after
Windows recognizes the USB device. Use the virtual device as you would use a locally
attached device.
To use a Virtual Floppy as a driver diskette during a Windows installation, disable the
integrated diskette drive in the host RBSU, which forces the virtual floppy disk to appear as
drive A.
To use a virtual USB key as a driver diskette during a Windows installation, change the boot
order of the USB key drive. Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends placing the USB key
drive first in the boot order.
• Windows Vista—Virtual Media does not work correctly on Windows Vista when you use
Internet Explorer 7 with Protected Mode enabled. If you attempt to use Virtual Media with
Protected Mode enabled, various error messages appear. To use Virtual Media, select
Tools→Internet Options→Security, clear Enable Protected Mode, and then click Apply.
After you disable Protected Mode, close all open browser instances and restart the browser.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server—Linux supports the use
of USB diskette and key drives.
Changing diskettes
When you are using a Virtual Floppy/USB key on a client machine with a physical USB disk drive,
disk-change operations are not recognized. For example, if a directory listing is obtained from a
floppy disk, and then the disk is changed, a subsequent directory listing shows the directory
listing for the first disk. If disk changes are necessary when you are using a Virtual Floppy/USB
key, make sure that the client machine contains a non-USB disk drive.
Operating system considerations: Virtual CD/DVD-ROM
• MS-DOS—The Virtual CD/DVD-ROM is not supported in MS-DOS.
• Windows—The Virtual CD/DVD-ROM appears automatically after Windows recognizes the
mounting of the device. Use it as you would use a locally attached CD/DVD-ROM device.
• Linux—The requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
follow:
◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux
On servers that have a locally attached CD/DVD-ROM, the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM device
is accessible at /dev/cdrom1. However, on servers that do not have a locally attached
CD/DVD-ROM, such as BL c-Class blade systems, the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM is the first
CD/DVD-ROM accessible at /dev/cdrom.
You can mount the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM as a normal CD/DVD-ROM device by using
the following command:
mount /mnt/cdrom1
◦ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
The Virtual CD/DVD-ROM can be found at /dev/scd0, unless a USB-connected local
CD/DVD-ROM is present. In that case, the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM uses /dev/scd1.
You can mount the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM as a normal CD/DVD-ROM device by using
the following command:
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