Thanx for the speedy reply. Slackware has a zipslack and a floppy
boodisk.img that they say should do the trick. When I boot from floppy
and specify mount root=/dev/sda1, it does not find the file system.
Could it be that my initrd is not waiting for the pendrive to
initialize as mentioned in your usb setup documentation. How can I try
to include a sleep functionality on this bootdisk image?
There may be instructions on the panasonic.jp site to boot msdos and
make the pendrive look like a cdrom drive, but I havent gotten the
nerve yet to run yahoo translator on the site.