On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:11:35AM +0200, Kai Engert wrote: > I would like to boot a machine that has a floppy drive, but no built-in > cd-rom - I would like to use a USB cd-rom. > > The BIOS does not directly support booting from USB. > > The cd-rom device is accessible by using the standard usb-uhci and > usb-storage modules. > > Should booting Knoppix from floopy+usb cdrom work, if I build a custom > kernel which includes all the necessary usb modules? IMHO konppix has usb support. Make a bood floppy (images are on the CD) and boot it... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Keine Shell, kein Prompt, keine Kekse." -- Jochen Hein in de.comp.os.linux.misc
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