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Date:      06 Jan 1998 07:47:34 -0600
From:      Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question.
Message-ID:  <85ra6l7lzd.fsf@localhost.zilker.net>
In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:42:38 -0800 (PST)
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105204147.1402o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes:
> 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/.

Could you really boot off the parallel version?  I assumed John was
speaking of a SCSI Zip drive, though he didn't actually say so one way
or another.

-Dave



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