[ECOS] Re: A suitable x86 based board

[R. Vamshi Krishna]

Grant Edwards wrote:

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