> From: David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
> > Yes, that is true... Ones I know don't work (or didn't work for me)
> > were Buslink and Sony... on the X-20 and X-30
>
> I found reports online of success booting from USB floppies with Sony
> drives, so it might depend on the particular model. (There are
> apparently some issues for some Linux installs, one of which is that
> even bootable drives are not recognized as floppy devices, but rather as
> USB storage devices, which changes the way the system handles them.)
shouldn't be a big deal for much longer - current debian installer betas
support boot-from-floppy-but-load-bootstrap-images-from USB storage
devices... like memory keys and such. VERY handy, that is....
elijah
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