Ad: Re: ilo virtual cdrom

[brad miele]

do you have to rescan the bus or something to get the device to show up 
once you create it in ilo? it seems that i should see something happen in 
messages when i create the virtual drive.

Brad
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Brad Miele
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Øystein Kaldhol wrote:

> brad miele <bmiele at ipnstock.com> wrote 14.12.2006 14:05:18:
>
>
>> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Øystein Kaldhol wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> -----owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org wrote: -----
>>>
>>>> To: freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
>>>> From: brad miele
>>>> Sent by: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
>>>> Date: 12/14/2006 03:33AM
>>>> Subject: ilo virtual cdrom
>>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> my comabny just upgrade ilo licenses on all of my machines. the new
>>>> version has something called a virtual cdrom. Has anyone used this? I
>>>>
>>>> tried using it today, but it didn't seem to do anything. Is it
>>>> supposed to
>>>> create a new entry in /dev or does it replace the onboard cd device?
>>>
>>> The ILO virtual media will appear as a physical device to the OS.
> Since
>>> it is accessible under boot, we use it to remote install servers. Plug
> in
>>> power & ILO, and install from the cdrom(or an image) on your local
>>> computer. Since this uses HTTP/SSL it can be done over the internet. I
>>> just used it to install 6.1 on one of our systems.
>>>
>>> It does not replace the onboard cd device as far as I know, it acts
> just
>>> as another device. Note that in addition to mounting local CD's, you
> can
>>> also mount image files, virtual floppies etc etc.
>>>
>>
>> thanks, i thnk you have answered my main concern, it seems like you
> can't
>> really mount the virtual cdrom on a running server. it needs to be
> dfined
>> and then booted to?
>
> No it can be mounted run-time. At least it works fine here. We're using
> DL360 and DL380's and FreeBSD 6.1
>
> brgrds
> Oystein Kaldhol
> Systems Administrator
> County of More & Romsdal, Norway
>
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