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This blog discusses topics in Small Business Server, CRM, and user groups, as well as items of interest that might occur along the road. Larry Lentz is a 25+ year computer industry veteran with 18 years as an independent consultant and owner of Lentz Computer Services, http://www.LentzComputer.net. Larry holds numerous Microsoft certifications and leads the Alamo PC Organization's MCSE Advanced Special Interest Group and the SBS SIG (http://www.LentzComputer.net/SBS). Larry is located in San Antonio, Texas. Lentz Computer Services was the first Microsoft Small Business Specialist in South Texas and is now a Microsoft Certified Partner. Larry was awarded the Microsoft MVP in CRM for 2006, 2007, and 2008..
USB Floppy & SBS Install

I am in the process of installing SBS 2003 R2 on a new server for a new client. The servers these days don't come with floppies, nor floppy connections. But we still need them to install third party SCSI drivers. So, I ordered a USB floppy with this new server. When starting the SBS install, I press F6 when it asks if I need to load third party drivers. Then when the install programs comes up and says it can't find any drives, do I want to load specific drivers, I press S, the appropriate response. It then prompts me to insert the diskette in Drive A: and hit enter. I do and it recognizes the drivers. I select one and it says Windows has a later driver. Would you rather use the one on the diskette or the later Windows one. I first selected use the later Windows one but then it still showed that Windows didn't have any drives. So, I went back and tried again but said let me use the drivers on the diskette. Things appeared to go well, I partitioned and formatted my RAID drives, but then it prompted me to insert the driver diskette in Drive A: and hit Enter. Hit Enter and nothing happens. As much as I hit Enter, nothing happens. So, I started over and tried again, hoping something would catch. Same experience. Then I tried it without hitting F6 to specify a driver but then it flat out told me there were no drives to install anything on and my only choice was to abort the install. So FINALLY I decided to see what would happen if I hit F6, let it read my driver diskette (always could at this point), but when it asked if I wanted to use the later Windows driver, I chose YES. It still indicated that it didn't have any drives, at this point, but when I proceeded on it did present the two logical RAID drives and let me install on them! It's loading SBS as I write. YEA!

Published Sunday, January 06, 2008 12:41 AM by LarryLentz

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# USB Floppy & SBS Install Revisited@ Monday, January 07, 2008 12:03 AM

Well, I thought I had it figured out, sorta. As I last posted , when my SBS install would not recognize

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# re: USB Floppy & SBS Install@ Monday, February 25, 2008 7:50 AM

I give it one try.  Then I slipsteam the drivers using nlite.  I also use driverpacks on my main SBS disc.  It has all the Mass storage and NIC drivers on it.  The 2 things I hate looking for.  You can always download a video driver...

Yan Herndon

# re: USB Floppy & SBS Install@ Monday, March 17, 2008 12:33 AM

MVvR4s Hi from Russia!

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