@RudiC........In this case, SCO is installed by booting from DVD/CD but then reading boot-time disk drivers from a floppy during the process. So it isn't the case that we need the floppy USB stick...
@jgt........They look like two really useful pieces of software. I will be checking them out. Thanks. Like the archaeologist said, "I didn't find it because I wasn't looking for it", however, now...
I thought I had posted this about an hour ago, but...
Copy and run Floppy Boot Disks from USB - gHacks Tech News (https://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/06/copy-and-run-floppy-boot-disks-from-usb/)
Hmmm, well, yes - quite some time ago I managed to make a USB stick look like a bootable 180 kB floppy to my PC, composing floppy boot sector structures (BIOS parameter block, NO MBR!), FREEDOS boot...
This is where a USB floppy drive comes in really handy both to write the BTLD floppies on the Linux box and read them (as BTLD driver(s)) on installation.
I used a Linux system to download and extract the EFS package from HP.
The following is an extract from the README
Then you have a new problem: how to create a diskette. I do not know if a BTLD...