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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> Unfortunately these computers (and XP computers in general I believe) won't 
> boot from a floppy even if a floppy drive is built-in.  Booting from the CD 
> drive (or maybe from a flash drive) is all you have short of going to (from) 
> the hard drive.

A similar boot CD could be made (booting you into FreeDOS and containing 
loadlin, kernel and initrd). I suppose the full complement of modules 
could be kept there, so your flash drive space wouldn't be taken up by 
them. You may find the machines won't boot from CD and that the BIOS is 
locked, though.

James