Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:36:08 -0500 (CDT) From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) To: durang@u.washington.edu (Ken Marsh) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SyQuest EzDrive Message-ID: <199607221436.JAA17481@astro.acs.uswest.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960721120354.42922B-100000@homer24.u.washington.edu> from "Ken Marsh" at Jul 21, 96 12:05:23 pm
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In a previous message, Ken Marsh said: > > > On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Gecko wrote: > > > > > Can I put FreeBSD on a SyQuest disk and boot from that? > > > > > > In all reality, a fully-functional FreeBSD box needs more than 135 MB > > of disk. > > > > - Justin J. Ashworth > > Don't let this stop you! You don't need so much space to run FreeBSD, only > if you want a complete full-featured install. If you just want to try out > the OS, 135Mb is plenty..... please mail the list if you figure out how to > do this!!!! > > Ken Marsh I don't see why you couldn't do it. The EZ135 is a full function SCSI drive (and IDE for that version?). I use it now as at sd3. The gotcha that I had is that probing it does not come up with the right configuration. It has only 2 heads. It's on my machine at home, so I can't look it up right now, but I'll get the geometry for everyone. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com "We've go to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" --Lee Iacocca, making excuses over Detroit's resistance to tougher automobile emission standards, 1974.
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