Users Guide

216 Configuring and Using Virtual Media
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. 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 12-3. Using Virtual Media: Frequently Asked Questions (continued)
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