F6 driver load from other media than floppy ?

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John7

Hi,


When installing an OS (2K / XP / 2003) on RAID or SCSI
you can press F6 and provide a driver floppy.
As floppies become outdated, is there an alternative to load from after F6 ?

TIA,
John7
 
Outdated?
Still helps you recover a non booting sys.
As to your Q, slipstream device drivers into an win installation disk
 
DL said:
Outdated?
Still helps you recover a non booting sys.
As to your Q, slipstream device drivers into an win installation disk

F6
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No doubt, I appreciate the value of a floppy drive (driver load, bios
update, imaging, etc.)
but hardware manufacturers will fade out floppy drives and its hardware
support.

So I was wandering if there are any alternative media to load from during F6
like USB-floppy, USB-stick, CD or emulated floppy drives....

John7
 
You're right, many PCs nowadays simply don't have floppy drives. And, as a
consequence, addressing a floppy drive (drive letter A:) for a driver during
XP installation is not feasible as a result.
A session for a boot CD is viewable by an OS, if the OS is booted from that
CD, and referenced as A: drive letter. Other removable media cannot be
accessed as only drive letter A: is negotiated for adding a driver during
the XP F6 portion of the installation. This is wrong.
 
Untill the o/s is modified/rewritten the only alternatives are;
1)A slipstreamed installation cd, that includes the drivers.
2)a floppy drive
Its not down to the hw manu its an o/s requirement
 
Just wait for Vista, I am sure there will be either a CD-ROM type
alternative or as you sugested a USB type recovery medium...

-Randy
 
probably you could xcopy the data on the floppy onto a cd. then go into
your bios and disengage the floppy drive and make the cd the bootable drive.
and if you have the option, select the "search for other bootable drives"
too. maybe when you press the f6 it will search other drives other than the
floppy.
 
Just wait for Vista, I am sure there will be either a CD-ROM type
alternative or as you sugested a USB type recovery medium...

-Randy
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Probably be alot cheaper for him to install a floppy drive on his computer
than have to update his hardware to run Fista. And of course, you're making
some assumptions that Fista will fix this particular silliness from
MickeyMouse.


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True, the install CD emulates a floppy to boot from but I doubt one can add
files to the floppy image.
Also, when installing, the CD has no drive letter.

So, you think it might be added files to a copied CD would work ?
Still requires some time when installing from OEM media.

John7
 
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