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It WILL boot from the floppy connected to the external drive connector.
Just needs the special cable and pretty much any Dell drive.
That's not a parallel connection.
Tom
"Luap" <luap@luap.co.uk> wrote in message
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> William P.N. Smith wrote:
>> Luap <luap@luap.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Will a Latitude boot from a Parallel floppy drive?
>>
>>
>> No, though it will boot from a USB {floppy, CD, hard drive, thumb
>> drive, etc} as well as all D-Bay drives.
>>
>
> Sorry, should have said Latitude LS, which I believe will not boot from a
> USB floppy. Seems to be conflicting evidence whether it will from a
> parallel floppy.
> Paul