[email protected] wrote:
> "Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > With no USB boot, No CD (except maybe pcmcia cdrom & that
> > too would need a floppy to start it, Even PL-IP would need
> > a floppy to start with.
> ..
> > Sure I have other better machines, but this spare old laptop
> > makes a nice spare X screen ...
> 
> Provided the machine has USB, 

This laptop does not, but I noticed it has a SCSI on the expansion port,
I'd better try that.

> this http://www.plop.at/ will
> boot the memstick (at least, it works for me with 8.1).

Thanks,
There's a lot of various software there, I guess you mean
        http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#features

I'll come back to that after trying to build some boot native FreeBSD
boot floppies.

Cheers,
Julian
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