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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:45:44 -0500
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD cant boot from ZIP - Is it true? 
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010215144326.03acd470@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <200102151921.f1FJKxV18036@mass.dis.org>
References:  <Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:29:37 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010215142835.02111890@mail.etinc.com>

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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
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>people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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