2 what to do, To redirect a floppy drive, To redirect a floppy drive image – Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 User Manual

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Chapter 10

Managing Redirection and Remote Control Using the SP GUI

10-13

10.6.2

What to Do

To Redirect a Floppy Drive

1. Start console redirection to reach the Remote Console screen.

See

Section 10.4, “How to Start and Stop Console Redirection” on page 10-6

. The

Remote Console screen provides the Redirection, Devices, and Keyboard menus.

2. From the Devices menu, choose Floppy to redirect the floppy drive.

FIGURE 10-6

Devices Menu

3. Choose which floppy drive to redirect in the pop-up menu.

Floppy drive redirection is enabled.

4. To stop floppy drive redirection, from the Devices menu again choose Floppy.

Floppy drive control reverts to the local machine.

Note –

You can also use keyboard shortcut keys to start and stop floppy drive

redirection. To toggle floppy drive redirection on and off, type ALT+f.

To redirect a Floppy Drive image:

1. If floppy drive redirection is active, turn it off.

2. From the Devices menu, choose Floppy Image.

3. Select which floppy drive image file (.img) to redirect in the pop-up menu.

The floppy drive image is redirected to the local machine.

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