Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Pointers to live usb using super floppy format

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:50:37 +,
  Marc Herbert marc.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Have a look at makebootfat. Something like this maybe (some details
 and options skipped for clarity)

I ended up making superfloppies for the gifts. That didn't work for hp 8200s
(though there is a firmware update available). The next time I go over
to where those machines are I'll be trying out hdd formatted drives to
see if they work. I also had a machine that I ended up allowing booting
from usb-zip/ls format which was the only option to work. This seems odd
since the devices were not set up with the zip format. I haven't gotten
any format to work on my home desktop which has bios settings for booting
off hdd devices.

I probably won't try the tricky stuff using makebootfat again for a long
while, since most of the drives are in other people's hands and for the
gaming group, I'll probably just worry about getting them to work on the
8200s and want to do that simply since I don't get a lot of testing
opportunity.

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[Fedora-livecd-list] Pointers to live usb using super floppy format

[Bruno Wolff III]

I have some older computers that don't seem to be able to boot off of
liveusb devcies formatted like hard drives and am looking to see if they
will work with ones formatted as superfloppies (no partition table and
no MBR). Since the bios' setup options suggest that they will boot off of
some usb devices it seems likely this will work.
However I am having trouble finding clear instructions on how to turn
a live[c/dv]d image into a liveusb image that doesn't use a partioned device.
Can someone point me to some reasonable documentation on how to do this?

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