> If there's an uncompresssed (or standardly compressed) image of the flash
> rom on there, could you take the floppy to an EPROM/FlashROM programmer
> and just program a chip that way? It looses the convenience of a FlashROM,
> but it'd get around a chicken-and-egg problem.

 Doesn't help, because you need to boot from the floppy - thats what I am
told to do. I don't want to risk to flash a non-working ROM - I wouldn't
be able to do anything afterwards...

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Markus Illenseer