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

2009-12-26 Thread 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

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

2009-12-21 Thread 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