User's Manual

Configuring and Using Virtual Media 159
What media can I boot from? DRAC 4 allows you to boot from any of the
following bootable media:
•CDROM media
• 1.44 floppy disk
• 1.44 floppy image
•USB key
• CD/DVD image file in ISO9660 format.
How can I make my USB key
bootable?
Dell provides a Windows utility for formatting its
USB Solid State devices as bootable devices on the
Dell Resource CD that ships with a Dell system.
You can use this utility to make the Memory Key
bootable. You can also use the utility to format the
Memory Key, to add an active partition, and to
transfer basic MS-DOS
®
system files to the
Memory Key.
This utility is also available on the Dell Support
website at support.dell.com. You can find the
utility by searching for "Memory Key Boot."
What does Virtual Media look
like at the server?
On Windows systems, you see additional CD and
removable media drives appear in "My Computer."
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, you see
devices that can be mounted. You can find the
device names by looking at /etc/fstab.
How do I know which drives are
my virtual media drives?
When you connect your management station
drive to the managed system drive then the title of
the inserted media should automatically appear
next to the drive letter on Windows systems.
However, the best way to know which drive is the
virtual media drive and which is the physical drive
is by opening/mounting the drive and looking at
its content.
Will the drive letters change on
Windows systems?
Generally, the drive letters will not change. So if
you have a CD drive that is labeled
D: and a
removable media drive that is labeled
F:, then
those drive letters will remain the same.
Table 7-2. Using Virtual Media: Frequently Asked Questions
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