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Topic: FDD emulation?, Can I boot from USB?

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randux

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Posted: Mar. 14 2006,21:47

Hi guys,

I have a laptop that doesn't have USB as one of the boot choices. I can boot from HD, CD, or FDD. The interesting thing is that this PC has no floppy...but it has a setting in BIOS called USB FDD emulation. So maybe I can boot from a USB drive that looks like a floppy?

I tried the normal DSL pendrive installation from Fluxbox menu. The BIOS doesn't see the USB drive and goes to the next selection.

Does anybody know how to make this work?

Also, what are the bootfloppy-usb.img and bootfloppy.img files? They are only 1.4m so they can't be all of DSL.

Thanks,
Randux

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Posted: Mar. 14 2006,22:52

Your laptop does not support booting from usb.

The FDD emulation will require a external floppy disk drive that plugs in the usb. You will probably need to one that was originally designed for your laptop.

The bootfloppy-usb.img is a fdd image. you need to write it to a floppy disk using dd (or rawwrite) and then boot the laptop with it and it will boot dsl from the usb.

The bootfloppy.img will boot dsl from a cd or harddrive.

the bootfloppy's don't contain dsl they try boot dsl from another device that your computer is not setup to boot from.

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