Re: Booting from a USB floppy drive

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Denny Fox wrote:

> 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?

http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux1.img.gz
http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux2.img.gz

This is a two floppy reform of tomsrtbt 1.7.361 onto a pair of dos
floppies, it should be able to boot from _any_ floppy like device
the BIOS knows. I've tested it on a Libretto 70CT booting off it's
PCMCIA floppy drive. Your USB floppy should be very similar.

In addition to the reform I've added a couple of drivers from add-ons
and (semi) hardcoded the keyboard to uk. To change the keyboard map
loaded change the last line, "LOADKEYS=uk" in the vmlinuz.cfg file
on the dos filesystem.

-- 
Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>