andrewphoto
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Posted: July 02 2005,10:53 |
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I downloaded the latest BIOS from Toshiba, extracted it,and read the README.
Says that you can use diskette drive (internal, USB, or PCMCIA.)
Very likely an external USB floppy drive will work. I worked in motherboard repair for a Chinaman and we used these all the time. Inexpensive Packard Bell/Matsumi should do the trick (maybe 30 bucks.)
Would be neat to save your pennies though, and do something neat like obtain a VERSATILE Compact Flash PCMCIA adapter (10 bucks or less,) and a Compact Flash card (two a penny.)
As for 'customising' your bios, I reckon this is 'advanced,' something I aspire to do, reckon I'll need to do some heavy googling to learn about that.
For now I boot USB-ZIP via internal floppy, and I'm quite happy with that.
Reckon ascertaining whether or not PCMCIA instead will work, is of value to know, aka Linux PCMCIA 'boot floppy.'
Perhaps Toshiba Support can answer that question exactly. I spoke with one of those guys the other week.
Turned out he was in India, bright guy, helpful.
I hope I might have been helpful.
You can definately burn a bios to cd and do it that way.
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