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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> I ran into another problem.  I decided to put the two floppy images on 
> actual floppies.  Copying over the disk2.gz image was no problem, but 
> neither of the recommended programs RAWRITE or FDIMAGE would recognise 
> my floppy drive as a floppy drive.  I work on a laptop that didn't come 
> with a floppy drive originally so I bought one that plugs in via a USB 
> port.  For some reason FDIMAGE gets an error 20 when it goes to the 
> floppy, RAWRITE can't determine the drive's recording density and bombs 
> out.  I will try your idea though.  Thanks.

BL3.40 has rudimentary USB support for keyboard and mouse, but probably 
not for USB floppy drive.  It will support parallel port zip drive, which 
I use instead of a floppy drive on one laptop computer.