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Using iLO 65
Operating System USB Support
Different operating systems provide varying levels of USB support. iLO uses the
built-in USB drivers of the operating system. The level of USB support in the
operating system affects the level of support for iLO Virtual Media. In general,
any operating system issues that affect a physical USB floppy drive or a physical
USB CD-ROM drive will also impact iLO Virtual Media.
The HP server ROM provides support at server boot time for Virtual Media. The
Virtual Floppy will be available at boot time regardless of the server operating
system.
The following server operating systems do not support USB media and,
therefore, do not have access to Virtual Media during operating system run time:
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MS-DOS®
Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0
Linux Red Hat (before 7.2)
SuSE Linux (before 7.0)
Novell NetWare 5.x and 6
Certain Linux operating systems do not correctly support USB Virtual Media
drives at operating system install time. The iLO Virtual Media should not be
used during the installation of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7.
Windows® 95 OSR 1 does not support any USB devices. Therefore, SmartStart
5.x CDs cannot be used with the iLO Virtual Media.
The following table lists operating system USB capabilities and the
corresponding iLO Virtual Media capabilities.