[HN Gopher] Plop Boot Managers
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       Plop Boot Managers
        
       Author : marttt
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-08-07 06:47 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | sidpatil wrote:
       | These are great for booting from USB drives on systems that are
       | too old to support that natively.
        
         | navaati wrote:
         | So where do you boot it from in the first place ? Floppy ?
        
           | elagost wrote:
           | Either that or CD. I used this to install an OS from USB on a
           | PC from 1998 that has a USB port but can't boot from it.
        
       | elagost wrote:
       | This is a fantastic project. I've played around recently with
       | late-90s/early-00s PCs, and have used Plop 5 on CD to boot off
       | the USB disks. If you use older hardware, keep a copy on CD -
       | booting off USB is much faster than CD!
        
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