From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Managing without a floppy disk drive
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:11:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D47A9C0.6090803@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9f8d0ab44ee53ba4a0454677b6ab0a6@9fs.org>
Nigel Roles wrote:
>I've not paid attention to how USB floppy based systems (e.g.
>Sony Vaio) are booted. How is this done?
>
This trickery is done by getting the BIOS to boot the floppy and then to get
plan 9 to use a copy of the floppy on c:
Look at:
http://home.fr.inter.net/boyd/code/plan9/usbflop.html
But I don't think it'll help you in your case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 9:11 UTC|newest]
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2002-07-31 8:31 Nigel Roles
2002-07-31 9:11 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2002-07-31 8:39 jmk
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