Re: [ECOS] Re: A suitable x86 based board

["R. Vamshi Krishna" <vamshi at cse dot iitb dot ac dot in>]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Yeah PC Motherboard is also fine. But what I wanted was that
> > is it possible to do away with a floppy drive totally ?
> >    
>
> Just don't install one?  About half of my Linux boxes don't
> have floppy disk drives.
>
>  
>
> > We have hard-disk/usb pen drive for logging data .. And we
> > have ideflash.
> >    
>
> OK.
>
>  
>
> > Is it possible to have the application on the
> > hard-drive/usb-pen drive /flash such that manual loading can
> > be done away with.
> >    
>
> I don't understand teh question.  Assuming it _is_ a question.
>  
What I meant was that so far with i386 PC as target I had been booting 
using FLOPPY + Redboot.

Can I do away with the floppy drive and boot the pc/board and load the 
application using ideflash and/or
usb pendrive ??
-- Vamshi


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