From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23043 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 15:37:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 23006 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 15:37:26 -0000 Received: from smtp3.iitb.ac.in (HELO smtp1.iitb.ac.in) (203.199.81.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with SMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:37:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 10584 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2005 21:07:21 +0530 Received: from unknown (HELO ldns1.iitb.ac.in) (10.200.12.1) by smtp1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 11 Jul 2005 21:07:21 +0530 Received: (qmail 15703 invoked by uid 509); 11 Jul 2005 15:32:01 -0000 Received: from 10.6.2.53 by ldns1 (envelope-from , uid 501) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.86.1/974. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(10.6.2.53):. Processed in 0.153904 secs); 11 Jul 2005 15:32:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.6.2.53?) (10.6.2.53) by ldns1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 11 Jul 2005 15:32:01 -0000 Message-ID: <42D29269.1050709@cse.iitb.ac.in> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:37:00 -0000 From: "R. Vamshi Krishna" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org References: <20050711114120.GC15048@lunn.ch> <20050711143719.CB4FD4936B@rivatek.dnsalias.net> In-Reply-To: <20050711143719.CB4FD4936B@rivatek.dnsalias.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: A suitable x86 based board X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 Grant Edwards wrote: >In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote: > > > >>Yeah PC Motherboard is also fine. But what I wanted was that >>is it possible to do away with a floppy drive totally ? >> >> > >Just don't install one? About half of my Linux boxes don't >have floppy disk drives. > > > >>We have hard-disk/usb pen drive for logging data .. And we >>have ideflash. >> >> > >OK. > > > >>Is it possible to have the application on the >>hard-drive/usb-pen drive /flash such that manual loading can >>be done away with. >> >> > >I don't understand teh question. Assuming it _is_ a question. > > 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 -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss