[NBLUG/talk] Re: USB floppy drive (A'fish'ionado)

[Steve Smith]

I bought a generic USB floppy for my HP laptop (Suse 9.0)
some time ago and just plugged it in and the system found it
with no problems.  From there it was one entry to the fstab
and things worked fine.

I don't think you can boot off of them however.  This would
require a selection in your BIOS, right, and I don't have
one on mine.

Steve S.

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 talk-request at nblug.org wrote:

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> From: A'fish'ionado <afishionado1 at yahoo.com>
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> I'm thinking about the Inspirion 1000 "Essentail
> Features". Now I'm debating whether or not I should
> buy the USB floppy drive. Does anybody know how well
> those are supported under Linux, or whether or not I
> can boot from a USB drive? (I probably won't ever need
> to boot off anything but the CD and hard disk, but
> it's nice to know.)
>
> TIA,
>
> William
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