similar to: Floppy disk in Windows DomU

Hello everybody, I''am trying to make an installation of a sles9 based system. In order to install this system after booting a floppy disk (or usb) should be "inserted" with a auto configuration file. My problem is what ever I try I can not attach a floppy image to the sles9. the command I tried is xm block-attach <dom nr> file://path/to/floppy.img /dev/fd0 w After

Hi All, I am trying to attach floppy virtual image to Windows domU. Either it is not attaching or domU is not showing floppy drive? domU config: 1. disk = [ ''file:/root/xenwin.img,hda,w'', ''file:/opt/Windows-Xp.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'', ''file:/root/win-boot.img,fd:floppy,r'' ] boot = "cda" In above format the window domU is booting but

Hi, Is it possible add a floppy image to a paravirtualized domain? I have the following lines in the config file: <devices> <disk type=''file'' device=''disk''> <driver name=''tap'' type=''aio''/> <source file=''/var/lib/xen/images/proba1.img''/> <target

After formatting a floppy to MSDOS format and using syslinux /dev/fd0, I successfully installed ldlinux.sys to the root directory of the floppy. Then I created a syslinux.cfg under the root directtory of this floppy to load the linux kernel in my first hard disk, 3rd partition, boot folder. The file system of this partition is ext3. The floppy has a FAT file system. This config file is listed

I have been trying to find the information by searching through the archives and google, so I am sorry if this question has been asked before I just have not been able to find an answer. I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0 0 (also just

It is now possible to build a bootable floppy image which contains HDT, with my patch applied to Erwans HDT branch: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/erwan/hdt.git;a=commit;h=16b37fe2266c920087f88cdec94243b71218d871 Unpack the Syslinux archive and build whole Syslinux first, then cd to ./com32/hdt/ and make hdt.img $ make $ cd ./com32/hdt/ $ make hdt.img Now you have a 2.88 MB floppy image which

Hi, It is becoming a bad habit for big OEM vendors to sell computers & servers without floppy drives. Unfortunatly both Windows and Linux (RedHat) need a floppy drive to load storage drivers etc. during installation. This is what I was thinking: Use ISOLINUX and MEMDISK to load a floppy image of a driver disk into memory as a viritual floppy drive "A:"/"/dev/fda" And then

Hello, when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk controller doesn't work correctly. Trying to format a floppy (perhaps with bad blocks) i get: Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Device not configured instead of the normal E letter. I then checked the same problem is present on FreeBSD-6.3 and it has been reported by Beech Rintoul (*) in 2006! Of course the floppy disk

Hi, I am still trying to get kick-start centos in my vmware5 because pxe cannot find the pxe server. I do not control the dhcp or pxe server. I have both my kickstart file and my iso image for centos6.5 on my vmware datastore, but am trying to run my kickstart file from VMware guest. Can I tell the command line to run from the datastore in VMWare? Or must I convert my kickstart file to a

Hello, I am trying to boot a FC6 domU on Xen 3.2 (compiled on a FC6 system). After compiling Xen 3.2 successfully on FC6 and making the ramdisk, I modified the conf.grub as shown below. With this, I was able to boot xen. ------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have

Hello, I'm trying to boot a dos floppy stored on a disk image which is initially loaded over pxe using memdisk. I've created the disk image as follows: dd if=/dev/zero of=$IMGLOCATION/$IMGNAME bs=$(( 1024 * 1024 )) count=20 LOOPDEV=$(losetup --show -f $IMGLOCATION/$IMGNAME) MAJOR_MINOR=$(ls -l $LOOPDEV|awk '{print $5$6}'|sed 's/,/:/') DMSIZE=$(( $(ls -l

Hello, I successfuly run Centos 5.1 domU in Centos 5.1 dom0. But I still have some minor issues/errors/warnings while booting I'd like to fix and here are my questions: 1. How to disable loading usb host controler module: [...from dmesg... ] Loading uhci-hcd.ko module USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 insmod: error inserting '/lib/uhci-hcd.ko': -1 No such

On bootup, it seems CentOS automatically mounts the floppy drive to /media/floppy. Is there a way to stop this from happening, short of removing the floppy drive from the system (as I don't use it)? Thanks, Ash Christopher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

The previous code treated floppy disks and CD-ROMs as the same kind of thing, resulting in malformed libvirt XML. You would see the following error when importing a guest into libvirt: error: Failed to define domain from /tmp/v2vlibvirt063486.xml error: internal error: Invalid floppy device name: hdb because we incorrectly generated this bogus libvirt XML fragment: <disk

Hello syslinuxers I'm stuck with a scientific problem which gives me headaches: I have a laptop (Gateway MX3410) which has a SD memory card reader. Recently an interesting thought crossed my mind: why don't I setup a 2GB SD card as a harddrive and put some rescue tools on it. So I dug on the net and I came across the idea of using memdisk to boot floppy images without the need of a

Thanks for your response, and how would you suggest that one would fix that? It hangs in the boot process! woody ==================== From: Christopher Clark <christopher.w.clark@gmail.com> [Add to Address Book] [View Source] To: "tarawa1943@comcast.net" <tarawa1943@comcast.net> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable dom0 boot "Floppy

Yes, really. I've got hundreds of the damn things here at home, and I want to go through them and get rid of them all. But... to do that I want to read them. I have both a 5.25" and a 3.5" drive, both are plugged in, but in the BIOS, all I see is the 3.5". Fine, I figure I'll take care of those. Nope. I see /dev/fd0 once I've booted up, but neither konqueror nor

Hi, Does Xen HVM support the the "disk" option that can attach a FAT partion or a floppy image like the qemu? In qemu, we can do it with the option "-hda fat:/root/tmp/" and "-fda /root/floopy.img". Any reply is appreciated. Thanks, Bei Guan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

I am trying to get a programmable database working, and what I see as the only solution is a prog like access via wine. The problem is my computer that I wish to install it on has no floppy drive, and this copy (the first version?) comes with about 10 floppies. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San

Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different media and also changed the floppy drive on one server, /dev/fd0 is seen as present on both