[sdw2003] W2K3 and USB floppies

[James Eitzen]

is this in the graphical part of the installation? Is it warning that it
cannot read the install CD?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:15 PM, John Oliver <joliver at john-oliver.net>
wrote:

> So I can get the W2K3 installer to see the RAID drivers on my floppy.
> It let me partition the hard disk and proceeded to format it.  After
> accepting the license, it sits there and then warns me about a CD or
> disk that might be damaged, I should try another copy.  Hitting enter
> prompts me to insert my floppy.  When I hit enter there, it doesn't even
> try to access the floppy... no lights, no noise, no nothing.  It says
> Please wait... for a couple of minutes, and then warns me about a
> damaged disk again.
>
> It looks like it managed to completely forget about the USB floppy
> drive, and maybe it thinks it's trying to talk to a regular floppy?  I
> don't know, but I am stuck.  What can I try to move on?  Is there some
> reasonable way for me to just slipstream the driver for the RAID
> controller into an image of the CD and skip the floppy entirely?  Or
> would that require a half-dozen advanced degrees in atomic rocket
> surgery?
>
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James Eitzen