On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:22:53PM -0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Ah, I'm not talking about booting from a recalcitrant box, but an infected one. True, I've never had to do it on one of my boxen, but I've rescued a couple of fiends in the past by booting in DOS and running F-Prot from a floppy.
However, I understand that it's got too big for that now.
Ubuntu/Live CD of choice and clamav works nicely for this (and seems better than the expensive Windows software designed specifically for this task).
I still want three flavours of floppy drive for transfer of any old programs I find at boot sales or pooter/ham fairs and want to try.
You can get at least one drive that can cope with both 5.25" and 3.5" disks (obviously not at the same time) it just accepts both.
Adam