On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:50:37 +0000, Marc Herbert Marc.Herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Have a look at "makebootfat". Something like this maybe (some details and options skipped for clarity)
I ended up making superfloppies for the gifts. That didn't work for hp 8200s (though there is a firmware update available). The next time I go over to where those machines are I'll be trying out hdd formatted drives to see if they work. I also had a machine that I ended up allowing booting from usb-zip/ls format which was the only option to work. This seems odd since the devices were not set up with the zip format. I haven't gotten any format to work on my home desktop which has bios settings for booting off hdd devices.
I probably won't try the tricky stuff using makebootfat again for a long while, since most of the drives are in other people's hands and for the gaming group, I'll probably just worry about getting them to work on the 8200s and want to do that simply since I don't get a lot of testing opportunity.