Users Guide

Using and Configuring Virtual Media 207
I cannot locate my Virtual Floppy
device on a system running Red
Hat Enterprise Linux or the SUSE
Linux operating System. My
Virtual Media is attached and I am
connected to my remote floppy.
What should I do?
Some Linux versions do not automount the
Virtual Floppy Drive and the Virtual CD
drive in a similar manner. In order to mount
the Virtual Floppy Drive, locate the device
node that Linux assigns to the Virtual Floppy
Drive. Perform the following steps to
correctly find and mount the Virtual Floppy
Drive:
1 Open a Linux command prompt and run
the following command:
grep "Virtual Floppy"
/var/log/messages
2 Locate the last entry to that message and
note the time.
3 At the Linux prompt, run the following
command:
grep "hh:mm:ss"
/var/log/messages
where:
hh:mm:ss is the time stamp of the
message returned by grep in step 1.
4 In step 3, read the result of the grep
command and locate the device name that
is given to the "Dell Virtual Floppy"
5 Ensure that you are attached and connected
to the Virtual Floppy Drive.
6 At the Linux prompt, run the following
command:
mount /dev/sdx /mnt/floppy
where:
/dev/sdx is the device name found in
step 4
/mnt/floppy is the mount point.
Table 8-2. Using Virtual Media: Frequently Asked Questions (continued)
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