On 10/11/07, Guido Tschakert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerald Thornberry schrieb: > > How about an external CDROM drive connected to a parallel port? Micro > > Solutions used to make one (called BackPack) that could connect via > > USB, PCCard, and Parallel Port. Once you loaded the drivers under > > Windows I'm pretty sure you could boot from it. > > > > Hmm, > what does the windows driver has to do with the ability of the bios to > boot from a device? > > Wasn't there, in the last century, a tool for windows to boot a linux > kernel (yeah, I know this is OpenBSD) from windows, but I guess that was > with win-"dos".
Googling the machine shows that the specs include an external floppy drive. If the OP could source one of those he could use floppy?.fs That costs the monies, though. Finding a USB-to-IDE converter is probably simpler and cheaper. -Nick
