Install on floppyless server

[Scott Ivey]

I have a server with a CDRom drive & no floppy. During the install from
bootable CD, I press F6 to install additional drivers for my RAID card, but
the only option is to use a floppy drive (which I don't have). Is there any
way to use a driver CD instead of floppy during this part of the install?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, since floppyless servers are
becoming more common.


Thanks,
Scott

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Scott

May I suggest a USB-connected floppy drive?

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[Scott Ivey]

yeah, I'm sure that's what I'll end up doing, but was wondering if there is
any other way.

Scott

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Scott

Actually, I'm not sure that it will work this way. The floppy will only
work if USB drivers are loaded when booting from the CD, and I cannot say
for sure that they are. It is worth a try though.

I am not aware of a method to load the driver from anything else than a
floppy.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[sgopus]

after it searches for and doesn't find the floppy, you
should be able to redirect the search to a source you
specify, ie a file on hd or cd

 

[Scott Ivey]

I don't think it lets you do that during the text portion of the setup, only
in the GUI portion.

Scott

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

I do not know if you can use a driver CD.

However, you can add the drivers to an unattended installation
launched from the network or from CD-ROM.

See <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=288344>.

For a free system which will generate an unattend.txt file for you,
including automatically parsing $OEM$\TEXTMODE\TXTSETUP.OEM to
generate [MassStorageDrivers], see
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/>.

- Pat