RE: Booting from a USB floppy drive

That would probably work, but the single PCI expansion slot contains
the second ethernet interface for the firewall. Also, I'd rather not
add a floppy card and floppy drive to each system. It would be great
to use the USB port, since it's already visable on the back panel.

Thanks for the thought ;-)

Denny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis W. Burton [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Booting from a USB floppy drive
>
>
> Could you use a floppy controller card (in an expansion slot) and a
> regular floppy drive ?  That would be my recommendation if
> `no joy' with
> USB.
>
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> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Denny Fox wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am building firewall systems using the new VIA Mini-ITX
> form factor
> > motherboard which has a whole PC including an ethernet
> port on a 7" x
> > 7" board. This is working really great with Debian Linux, with one
> > little problem. There is no floppy port on the board.
> >
> > The Award bios has lots of boot choices, including
> booting from a USB
> > floppy. The board does have two USB ports. It will also
> boot a CD, but
> > I want somethng to do maintenance on a box that won't
> boot the hard
> > disk, without taking the box apart. A CD drive will not
> be part of the
> > final package.
> >
> > So, I went out and bought a Teac USB floppy drive today
> and gave it a
> > try. It boots a 1.44 mb Win98 boot floppy fine. However, tomsrtbt
> > 1.7.218 stops after LIL-. Also, my "parted" (partition edit) boot
> > floppy starts to boot, but partway through says "invalid
> compressed
> > format".
> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1. Does anyone make a USB floppy drive that will boot
> floppys that are
> > not 1.44 mb DOS format?
> >
> > 2. Has anyone created a version of tomsrtbt that will
> boot off a USB
> > floppy drive?
> >
> > 3. Can anyone suggest a way to make this work?
> >
> > I searched the wiki, but didn't see anything there.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Denny Fox
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>