Using iLO 2 111
In NetWare 6.5, use the
lfvmount
command on the server console to assign the device a drive letter.
The NetWare 6.5 operating system will pick the first available drive letter for the Virtual Floppy drive. The
volumes
command can now be used by the server console to show the mount status of this new drive.
When the drive letter shows as mounted, the drive will now be accessible through the server GUI as well
as the system console.
When the Virtual Floppy Drive is mounted, if the media is changed in the local floppy drive, the
lfvmount
command must be re-issued on the server console to see the new media in the NetWare 6.5
operating system.
Mounting USB Virtual Media/USBKey in Linux
1.
Access iLO 2 through a browser.
2.
Select
Virtual Media
in the Virtual Devices tab.
3.
Select a diskette drive or diskette image.
a.
For a floppy drive or image, select a Local Media Drive or Local Image File and click
Connect.
b.
For a USB key drive or image, select a Local Image File and click
Connect.
For a physical USB key drive, enter
/dev/sda
in the Local Image File text box.
4.
Load the USB drivers, using the following commands:
modprobe usbcore
modprobe usb-storage
modprobe usb-ohci
5.
Load the SCSI disk driver, using the following command:
modprobe sd_mod
6.
Mount the drive.
o
To mount the diskette drive, use the following command:
mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy –t vfat
o
To mount the USB key drive, use the following command:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/keydrive
NOTE:
Use the
man mount
command for additional file system types.
The floppy and key drive can be used as a Linux file system, if formatted as such, with the
mount
command. However, 1.44-Mb diskettes are usually accessed utilizing the mtools utilities distributed with
both Red Hat and SLES. The default mtools configuration does not recognize a USB-connected floppy. To
enable the various m commands to access the Virtual Floppy device, modify the existing /etc/mtools.conf
file and add the following line:
drive v: file="/dev/sda" exclusive
To enable the various mtools commands to access the Virtual USBKey device, modify the existing
/etc/mtools.conf file and add the following line:
drive v: file="/dev/sda1" exclusive
To list the Virtual USBKey device partition table to find the desired partition, use the following command:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
This modification enables the mtools suite to access the Virtual Floppy as v. For example:
