jkrim{at}comcast.net ha scritto:
>
> Kris,
>
> The interesting question is what the floppy looks like when it is the 
> media bay of the laptop vs. connected via a USB cable and sitting 
> external to the laptop. Does it still look like a USB drive or does it 
> look like a "standard" floppy or is it emulated?
>
To repeat myself again: it doens't matter how it "looks like", it does 
matter what it is.  Something no matter that has been  attached to  a 
computer by means of an USB cable into an USB port is an USB device and 
remains an USB device. Modern biosses do support USB booting, and that 
is the reason why you can boot from USB devices on these computers. But 
still these devices remain USB devices. An USB floppy device attached to 
this kind of computers "looks like" just as it is:  an USB floppy device.
Very obviously, Warp 4 didn't know a single bit about USB, so even so 
obviously W4 won't make bootable diskettes with USB support. Elementary, 
my dear fellow, elementary.

Bottom line, in order to boot from an USB diskette you would have to 
construct a trio of floppies onto the file and it's config entry entry:

BaseDev=USBMSD.ADD

would be loaded soon enough into memory, so that booting would be able 
to proceed.

Never done it myself, and I wonder if anyone would have done it already 
altogether. Meaning I can't gine you any guarantee.

A proposito 1: The Mac, Windy and most Linux brands do support USB out 
of the kernel, and that's the reason why the USB support is more extensive.
A proposito 2: What's the size of the hard disk of the laptop you are 
speaking about? Are you aware, with Warp 4 you have to deal with the 
1024th cylinder boundery, the 8 Giga boundery, the 32 Giga boundery 
ecc.. ecc...

Anyway, IMHO it would be much more cost effective to grant yourself an 
eCS 1.2 package as Christmas present.


-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




 
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