The future of Diskette bootstraps
Pedro Fernandes Macedo
webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br
Mon May 17 21:59:25 UTC 2004
Guy Fraser wrote:
> I would presume that boot floppies should be around for a little while
> longer but floppies are too small to be used much longer.
>
> I have been noticing more and more computers being sold that don't
> come with floppy drives anymore. I'm not just talking about Mac's
> either. We have a bunch of little machines we use for single purpose
> servers, and they don't come with a floppy or CD, so we hookup a CD to
> get the install started and do a network install.
>
> Good luck.
Two possibilities:
1 - some machines have support to network boot. Maybe try this?
2 - I dont know if Fedora Core 2 will have it , but during test , a
pendrive image was released , so you could boot from USB..
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Pedro Macedo
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