Boot Floppies and USB Floppy Drives

R-Razi · 08-17-2004, 12:06 AM

Hi, I Plan on installing SuSE and WindowsXP (Dual boot) onto my system and Im concerned if I will be able to create and execute a boot floppy with a USB floppy drive. Will the USB floppy drive work the same way as a internal floppy drive. Will I be able to install grub etc with a USB floppy drive? Looking forward to replies, thanks.

jschiwal · 08-17-2004, 07:49 AM

It really depends on your computers bios. Newer computers should be able to but you need to enable booting from usb in the bios setup.

This is a case were you'll need to get a bit adventurous and test it out!

class_struggle · 08-23-2004, 11:37 AM

Well I'm trying to solve this problem out right now.

My BIOS detects my USB floppy no problem, but I can't find how my new Knoppix HD installation is assigning it in the /dev dir.

I continue to experiment .. any pointers would be helpful ..

class_struggle · 08-23-2004, 12:51 PM

solved this. see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...55#post1127655
linx-usb.org is a good resource.