DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: for floppyless people

If one doesn't have a floppy drive, how about
making a 2mb partition and dd'ing the bootfloppy there?

I think it would work, but haven't tried it. If it does,
it could be added to the wiki as 'floppyless poormans' or something..

It then could be chainloaded or if it's the first partition,
booted straight from bios..

I don't see how that would be better than just installing one of the bootloaders from the regular bunch onto a drive.

If one wants to boot usb without a slow floppy it would be a very good use ;)

What ^thehatsrule^ is saying is that you are not getting any benefit over installing a regular bootloader by installing a bootloader built for a floppy.
The comment was not saying your idea couldn't be useful, but that it is addressing an issue that has already been effectively resolved.

Ok. But say, how can I boot an usb stick using grub or lilo (the usual bootloaders) if the mobo doesn't support usb booting?

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