Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/ 2008-10-15T19:04:55-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-02-12T14:39:43-05:00 Martin Clark http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/?l=1#528860 Thanks for your replies, I will try this stuff out. text/html 2008-02-12T01:59:58-05:00 Greg M http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/?l=1#528804 I like DSL (Damn Small Linux, but I'm not sure if it supports USB from floppy... but I know it has a good floppy boot-loader... text/html 2008-02-11T20:21:06-05:00 BoT http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/?l=1#528784 check here<br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html" target="_blank">http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html</a><br /> <br /> selet your platform and select &quot;minimalist&quot; in the category.<br /> <br /> it will give you a list of linux versions that are bootable from ffloppy. <br /> i would not expect a gui, so if you are compfortable with the command line thats the way <br /> to go text/html 2008-02-11T20:04:11-05:00 _MD_ http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/?l=1#528782 P.S. or even good old partition magic has drivers for usb under dos. =) text/html 2008-02-11T19:31:40-05:00 _MD_ http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/?l=1#528778 Hmmm... interesting problem... Here's how you can boot from a usb flash drive that has linux:<br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.pendrivelinux.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pendrivelinux.com/</a><br /> But if you BIOS doesn't support booting from usb, then what if you try booting with a floppy that has usb drivers, then pop a live cd into an external drive and off you go. Those floppies usually can be created by recovery software such as &quot;RecoverSoft™ Media Tools Professional&quot;. Good luck text/html 2008-02-11T10:48:23-05:00 Martin Clark http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70676/?l=1#0 Hi.<br /> <br /> I have a Sony Fx802 Laptop, which has no hard drive, has something burned out electronically which prevents it reading a internal hard drive - i've tried - it's internal cd is screwed.<br /> <br /> I would like a floppy disk image which would enable me to boot live linux knoppix (or any version of linux) from a external cd drive - The Bios does not directly drive USB<br /> <br /> I have tried hunting around the net.