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Subject: Re: [9fans] Managing without a floppy disk drive
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:11:28 +0200
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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.