Re: Booting from USB key drive?

From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 12/07/04


Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:47:18 -0700

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:41:57 +0000, William Park wrote:

> Does modern BIOS allows you to boot from USB key? Or, do you need boot
> using floppy? I would like to eliminate harddisk, cdrom, and floppy,
> and have a totally solid-state system.

I have a two year old tower system - 2.4ghzP4. I followed the instructions
for 'feather' linux to install to a flash disk. My bios has a selection
for 'boot menu' - I selected 'usb zip disk' and it booted up properly from
the flash disk - my suggestion: play with it.



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