[Qemu-devel] Q: how to change floppy disks?

[Qemu-devel] Q: how to change floppy disks?

[Nardmann, Heiko]

Hi together,

I try to install a Windows NT Server starting with three floppy disks (missing 
a bootable CD). After booting from the first one (with '-fda /dev/fd0' as a 
qemu option ) I am expected to insert the second one into 'A:'. But pressing 
enter does not result in an access to the floppy disk drive.

Anyone with a similar problem who has solved this, i.e. changing floppy disks?

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: how to change floppy disks?

[Martin Bochnig]

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Nardmann, Heiko wrote:

>Hi together,
>
>I try to install a Windows NT Server starting with three floppy disks (missing 
>a bootable CD). After booting from the first one (with '-fda /dev/fd0' as a 
>qemu option ) I am expected to insert the second one into 'A:'. But pressing 
>enter does not result in an access to the floppy disk drive.
>
>Anyone with a similar problem who has solved this, i.e. changing floppy disks?
>
>  
>

Maybe using QEMU-Monitor would be of help for hot-swapping media ?!

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: how to change floppy disks?

[Juergen Keil]

> From: "Nardmann, Heiko" <heiko.nardmann@secunet.com>
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:35:45 +0200

> I try to install a Windows NT Server starting with three floppy disks (missing 
> a bootable CD). After booting from the first one (with '-fda /dev/fd0' as a 
> qemu option ) I am expected to insert the second one into 'A:'. But pressing 
> enter does not result in an access to the floppy disk drive.

Did you try the "eject" and "change" commands in qemu's monitor?

  Ctrl-Alt-2 (to start the monitor screen)

  eject fda
  change fda /path/to/new/floppy_image

  Ctrl-Alt-1

Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: how to change floppy disks?

[Alexandre Leclerc]

On 8/12/05, Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de> wrote:
> Did you try the "eject" and "change" commands in qemu's monitor?
> 
>   Ctrl-Alt-2 (to start the monitor screen)
> 
>   eject fda
>   change fda /path/to/new/floppy_image
> 
>   Ctrl-Alt-1

If this works wrong, do not 'eject' but simply 'change fda'... this is
what I'm doing and it works great. In a previous version when I was
ejecting, the media was not available anymore... maybe this is an
error from me.

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Alexandre Leclerc