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SCSI Drivers w/o Floppy

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Vertigo Acid

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I'm trying to install windows 2000 server onto a Cheetah on my LSIU160, but Windows 2000 does not have the drivers for it automatically. I would just pop in a floppy disk of the drivers, but the problem is that I don't have a working floppy drive anymore. Any ideas?
 
I have never found a way to give a 2k install drivers except via floppy. Even the latest and greatest XP and 2003 are the same way. So much for killing off the floppy drive. :) I would just get a floppy drive for $10 or so and be done with it. A USB floppy drive might also work, never tried it. Another option would be if you have an older SCSI card you could use for the install then swap over to the new one after windows has been installed.
 
Bah, that's a bummer.

Any reason I can't install to an IDE drive and ghost it over?
 
You *may* have to do the repair install thing to have Windows pick up the new storage subsystem?
 
Vertigo Acid said:
Bah, that's a bummer.

Any reason I can't install to an IDE drive and ghost it over?
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Actually there is a good chance that would work, I think I may have even done it before. Just make sure that windows has detected the SCSI card before you image over to the SCSI card.
 
aug1516 said:
I have never found a way to give a 2k install drivers except via floppy. Even the latest and greatest XP and 2003 are the same way. So much for killing off the floppy drive. :) I would just get a floppy drive for $10 or so and be done with it. A USB floppy drive might also work, never tried it. Another option would be if you have an older SCSI card you could use for the install then swap over to the new one after windows has been installed.
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You can add the drivers into the various driver databases on the Windows CD, but this involves a lot of hand editing of really big, poorly documented text files. There are hundreds of howtos on doing so, but most require a good deal of luck, still. Tried it about a dozen times myself and failed to get it to work. Others claim they've done it for LSI drivers, though.
 
Vertigo Acid said:
I'm trying to install windows 2000 server onto a Cheetah on my LSIU160, but Windows 2000 does not have the drivers for it automatically. I would just pop in a floppy disk of the drivers, but the problem is that I don't have a working floppy drive anymore. Any ideas?
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The best way to do it? Get a cheap USB 16MB memory card and put all the necessary drivers on it. In the bios you can tell it to emulate the USB memory card as a floppy drive and Windows will see it as such. I'm been doing this for a while now, it's really nice to be floppy free. :)
 
trungma said:
The best way to do it? Get a cheap USB 16MB memory card and put all the necessary drivers on it. In the bios you can tell it to emulate the USB memory card as a floppy drive and Windows will see it as such. I'm been doing this for a while now, it's really nice to be floppy free. :)
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Where would that be in the BIOS? The motherboard i'm using, the K7D Master-L, can't even boot off of USB devices.
 
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