On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:58:13 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:


> 
> I'll probably get a new drive and if it doesn't work put it in an
> external USB enclosure and try that; if it doesn't work then use it
> as a backup device for my main box.
> 
I think it unlikely that a machine that old will boot from USB.  At
least, I don't recall ever seeing any such option when I had one.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb