On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Denny Fox wrote: > 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?
http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux1.img.gz http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux2.img.gz This is a two floppy reform of tomsrtbt 1.7.361 onto a pair of dos floppies, it should be able to boot from _any_ floppy like device the BIOS knows. I've tested it on a Libretto 70CT booting off it's PCMCIA floppy drive. Your USB floppy should be very similar. In addition to the reform I've added a couple of drivers from add-ons and (semi) hardcoded the keyboard to uk. To change the keyboard map loaded change the last line, "LOADKEYS=uk" in the vmlinuz.cfg file on the dos filesystem. -- Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>) <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
