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Subject: Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?
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> I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550
> card.  It's a 1u system -- sticking extra things into PCI slots
> as a workaround is likely to be impossible.

Any possibility of using a USB floppy drive?

> 3) Adding the kldload command to the emergency holographic shell
> (I was able to do an NFS mount from within it, but had no way to
> load the driver).

Maybe put kldload on that NFS mount along with the module to be
loaded, and run it from there?