[NBLUG/talk] How Low Can We Go?
Lincoln Peters
sampln at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 20 12:21:04 PDT 2006
Stephen Cilley wrote:
> I didn't know such drive existed. Either way, I'm
> never going to be able to get the BIOS to mount off of
> the USB. Nice try, though.
Can't you boot from a floppy disk, *then* install from a USB CD-ROM
attached to the PCMCIA card? I don't know if there are any Linux
distros where the boot floppies support USB PCMCIA cards *and* USB
CD-ROM drives, but at least in theory, it would work.
--
Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>
"What people have been reduced to are mere 3-D representations of their own
data."
-- Arthur Miller
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