From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 11:20:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (c228380-a.sfmissn1.sfba.home.com [24.20.90.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE4A37B401; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1FJKxV18036; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102151921.f1FJKxV18036@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Dennis Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD cant boot from ZIP - Is it true? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:29:37 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010215142835.02111890@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:20:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is it true that freebsd can't boot from a zip drive? No. You can't boot from the parallel-port drives, but that's a feature of the PC not expecting to be able to boot from a printer rather than a FreeBSD issue. I've personally booted FreeBSD from the old, old ATA Zip drives, the ATAPI ones and of course the SCSI drives, in both whole-disk and sliced (as from the factory) modes. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message