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terminal
Starts the terminal passthrough mode for serial port 1. The key sequence esc exit switches back
to the command mode. The command has an optional parameter (1 or 2)
to select the desired serial port for passthrough access.
6.2Virtual Media
6.2.1 Mapping
Figure 6-3. Virtual Flop py Area
Upload a Floppy Image
Within two small steps working on the basis of a certain (floppy) image can be achieved.
• First, the path of the image has to be specified. You can do that either by hand, or by us ing
the file selection dialog of your web browser. To open the file selection dialog, click on the
button “Browse” and select the desired image file.
Figure 6-4. Select Image File
The maximum image size is limited to 1.44MB. To use a larger image, mount this image via
Windows Share (or SAMBA) (see the Section called Use Image on Windows Share (SAMBA) for
details).
• Second, click on the button “Upload” to initiate the transfer of the chosen image file into the
DKVM-IP8 switch s onboard memory. This image file is kept in the onboard memory of the
DKVM-IP8 switch until the end of the current session, until you logged out, or initiated a
reboot of the DKVM-IP8 switch.