[lug] External USB floppy drives and driver diskettes

[Bear Giles]

karl horlen wrote:
> The last server I purchased didn't have a floppy
> drive.     I thought why waste the money and bay on
> it.
>
> When it came time to make a driver diskette I was
> later presented with a dilemma :
>
> 1) either crack open an existing computer, pull the
> floppy and temporarily install it on the server to do
> what i needed to do.
>
> 2) try to find a way to make usb flash stick or a CD
> function as a driver diskette.
>
> 3) buy a usb external floppy drive.
>
> 4) buy the server with a floppy drive in the first
> place.
>   
I generally burn a CD.  I don't have the mkisofs (or whatever it's 
called now) options handy, but you can create a bootable CD from any 
bootable 1.44 MB image.