Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can it boot from a USB floppy?
That idea isn't quite as crazy as it sounds. A little while back I encountered some weirdness with machines I was testing that came without floppies but the manufacturer for reasons which never became quite clear decided firmware upgrades were to be had as floppy images only. As it turned out, with a USB 3.5" floppy drive attached, the formerly floppyless systems tried the searching the floppy drive first for boot code. Kind of weird, but it could just work. They're not terribly expensive either. Mine came to something like 45 USD. When I mentioned this at a conference about six months ago, the first question I got was, "do they come in five and a quarter inch versions as well?" - yes, really. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
