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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:42:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        john <appel1@gte.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105204147.1402o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801052121.PAA20333@smtp1.mailsrvcs.net>

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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, john wrote:

> 
> 
> I have a very strange question that I have not been able to get answered or
> even find documentation on. The question is this, I have a Epson Iomega
> 100MB ZiP drive, and am trying to find out if it is at all possible for me
> to partition a zip disk and put two boot sectors on it, to dual boot os'es
> from the zip drive, it is a parralel drive. The reason I ask you at freebsd
> is because I am a FreeBSD 2.2.5 user and cannot find the answer to this
> question. I am trying to dual boot FreeBSD2.2.5 and possibly another form
> of UNIX/LINUX. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

You have to find the parallel version drivers first.  Check the mail
archives.  If you want to run -CURRENT the new ppbus stuff should support
you.  Formatting instructions are at
http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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