Users Guide

182 Using and Configuring Virtual Media

Enabling Virtual Flash

To enable Virtual Flash, open a command prompt, type the following

command, and press <Enter>:

racadm config -g cfgRacVirtual -o

cfgVirMediaKeyEnable 1

Disabling Virtual Flash

To disable Virtual Flash, open a command prompt, type the following

command, and press <Enter>:

racadm config -gcfgRacVirtual -o cfgVirMediaKeyEnable 0

Storing Images in a Virtual Flash

The Virtual Flash can be formatted from the managed host. If you are

running the Windows operating system, right-click the drive icon and select

Format. If you are running Linux, system tools such as format and fdisk allow

you to partition and format the USB.

Before you upload an image from the RAC Web browser to the Virtual Flash,

ensure that the image file is between 1.44 MB and 16 MB in size (inclusive)

and Virtual Flash is disabled. After you download the image and re-enable the

Virtual Flash drive, the system and BIOS recognize the Virtual Flash.

Configuring a Bootable Virtual Flash

Insert a bootable diskette into the diskette drive or insert a bootable CD

into the optical drive.

Restart your system and boot to the selected media drive.

Add a partition to Virtual Flash and enable the partition.

Use

fdisk

if Virtual Flash is emulating the hard drive. If Virtual Flash is

configured as Drive B:, the Virtual Flash is floppy emulated and does not

require a partition to configure Virtual Flash as a bootable drive.