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Chapter 4: Virtual Media
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Drive Partitions
The following drive partition limitations exist across operating systems:
Windows
®
and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formatted
partitions
Windows and Linux cannot read Mac formatted partitions
Only Windows Fat partitions are supported by Linux
Root User Permission Requirement
Your virtual media connection can be closed if you mount a CD ROM
from a Linux client to a target and then unmount the CD ROM.
To avoid these issues, you must be a root user.
Virtual Media in a Mac Environment
Active System Partition
You cannot use virtual media to mount active system partitions for a Mac
client.
Drive Partitions
The following drive partition limitations exist across operating systems:
Windows
®
and Mac targets are not able to read Linux formatted
partitions
Windows cannot read Mac formatted partitions
Windows FAT and NTFS are supported by Mac
Mac users must unmount any devices that are already mounted in
order to connect to a target server. Use >diskutil umount
/dev/disk1s1 to unmount the device and diskutil mount /dev/disk1s1
to remount it.