Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:45:44 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD cant boot from ZIP - Is it true? Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20010215144326.03acd470@mail.etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200102151921.f1FJKxV18036@mass.dis.org> References: <Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:29:37 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010215142835.02111890@mail.etinc.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 02:20 PM 02/15/2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. I believe you, but no-one seems to know how to do it. FreeBSD seems to get confused between the hard drive and the ZIP and it becomes a mess very quickly. This is with ATAPI IDE drives btw. Whats the "trick"? Dennis >-- >... 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.0.0.25.0.20010215144326.03acd470>