From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 7:35:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15BA14C8A for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12AEBL-000G3b-00; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:35:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12916; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:35:02 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:35:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: W33TAD1D@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i omega zip drive In-Reply-To: <53.38f74b.25b274f1@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I see three potential problems here: 1. 250 megs may not be enough space for a useable system 2. The system must be able to boot fromt he zip, which may be tough 3. The filesystem will be unbearably slow On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 W33TAD1D@aol.com wrote: >i have an iomega 250m zip drive (parallel port), i wanted to install freebsd >on a zip disk, and not my hard drive. how do i do that? i presently have the >first cd of 2.2.6. > >abe > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message