[syslinux] Usin ISO Linux & Memdisk to create a Viritual Floppy drive that Linux & Windows can load driver disk from.

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

Hi,

It is becoming a bad habit for big OEM vendors to sell computers & servers without floppy drives.
Unfortunatly both Windows and Linux (RedHat) need a floppy drive to load storage drivers etc. during installation.

This is what I was thinking:
Use ISOLINUX and MEMDISK to load a floppy image of a driver disk into memory as a viritual floppy drive "A:"/"/dev/fda" And then "chainload" into Windows Installation and be able to F6 and load the driver of the viritual floppy drive.

Would this be possilble?

I would like to create a CD with several driver disks, and possibly eaven some diagnostic tools and recovery console etc. Anyone done something like this before? Dockumented anywhere?


Best Regards
Harald Jensås
MCP, CCNA
Nordic Server Support
Dell AB
http://support.euro.dell.com/
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