From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 11:33:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EB137B401; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:33:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA73428; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:40:32 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010215144326.03acd470@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:45:44 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Dennis Subject: Re: FreeBSD cant boot from ZIP - Is it true? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200102151921.f1FJKxV18036@mass.dis.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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