No FDD, No Floppy conector on board, F6 wants the dam floppy!!!

[mydssbin]

Intel board has no floppy connector; I don’t have a USB floppy drive. I have a Adaptec controller with 2x 80GB drives connected to it in RAID 1. When installing Windows 2003 server I press F6 for additional drives; but it want my dam floppy and I have no floppy. Any way I can trick the USB memory stick into thinking it is a USB floppy? How do I do that?

Thanks Very Much!!

[hawkbox]

no idea how you would trick one. I see you already thought of my usb floppy suggestion. We buy all our servers with Floppie still just because of that crap.

[KorruptioN]

What Intel board doesn't have a floppy connector? Most (if not all) of their current products still do.

[DuDe1411]

i guess micro$oft's still using floppy
what happen if you want for it to fail?

[sfu_lifer]

I think you'll need to slipstream the drivers in.
That's why I have given up on SATA and non-Vista installs ever since I threw out my floppy.

[mydssbin]

Intel BOXDG965WHMKR

[glennaxl]

Slipstream will do it. nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/) works great for this matter.

[stormy13]

Certainly looks like it does have one,

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965WH/index.htm

Peripheral Interfaces
Ten USB 2.0 ports
Two IEEE-1394a interfaces: one back panel connector and one front-panel header
Six Serial ATA IDE interfaces
One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support
One diskette drive interface
One serial port
One parallel port

and here's a larger picture of the motherboard,

http://www.intel.com/products/i/motherbd/DG965WH/DG965WH_lg.jpg

it is either the one right beside the main power connector or down near the SATA ports.

Oh and I agree with the post above, use nlite and slipstream the drivers in, damn sight easier than messing around with a floppy drive.

[mydssbin]

WOW!!! Feel really dumb, it is hidden behind my optical drive. Thanks guys for fast reply.