[NCLUG] KRUD 7.2 Boot Failure

[Matt Taggart]

Michael Dwyer writes...

>  o If I want to test my memory with memtest86, I need to boot off a
> floppy...  Its all of, like, 8k or something -- burning it to a CD would
> be a crime. :)

Why not let your bootloader load it? That's what I do and it works great.

[snip]
> Here's one more little tale:  I helped a small real estate office
> replace their IBM Selectric typewriters with PCs.  I selected the HP ePC
> line.  They are really neat little machines -- about the size of a
> college dictionary.  But they ONLY have a CD-ROM drive.  I figured that
> if they needed a floppy, they could use the one on the server.
> Well, that's fine, but their custom software REQUIRES that you use their
> silly 'key disk'.  And I cannot explain to them that I HAVE NO FLOPPY
> DRIVE...  Argh.  

They sell a USB floppy drive that the BIOS can see as normal floppy drive.
It is silly they require a floppy though.

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Matt Taggart
matt at lackof.org