From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 20:43:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA28718 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA28711 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:43:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA01770; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:42:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:42:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: john cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question. In-Reply-To: <199801052121.PAA20333@smtp1.mailsrvcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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