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Do you happen to know if it is possible to make a "boot disk" with a usb pen drive instead of using a conventional floppy disk?
I'm getting a laptop with no floppy drive so I just wanted to know if there is any utility that may accomplish that. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.
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For those of us in the 21st century (read: sans floppy) the cdrom/dvdrom drive works great if you need emergency booting. Any machine new enough to not have a floppy should support boot from cd. I am not sure if you can boot from a sda device. Worth looking into..
your bios has to support booting from usb, mine does but i could never get it to boot from the usb drive. they have a version of linux that fits on a pendrive as well, called runt.
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