Could you use a floppy controller card (in an expansion slot) and a
regular floppy drive ? That would be my recommendation if `no joy' with
USB.
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Denny Fox wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am building firewall systems using the new VIA Mini-ITX form factor
> motherboard which has a whole PC including an ethernet port on a 7" x
> 7" board. This is working really great with Debian Linux, with one
> little problem. There is no floppy port on the board.
>
> The Award bios has lots of boot choices, including booting from a USB
> floppy. The board does have two USB ports. It will also boot a CD, but
> I want somethng to do maintenance on a box that won't boot the hard
> disk, without taking the box apart. A CD drive will not be part of the
> final package.
>
> 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?
>
> I searched the wiki, but didn't see anything there.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Denny Fox
>
>
>
