Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:10:34 -0500 (CDT) From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: durang@u.washington.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SyQuest EzDrive Message-ID: <199607222210.RAA21562@astro.acs.uswest.com> In-Reply-To: <199607221436.JAA17481@astro.acs.uswest.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Jul 22, 96 09:36:08 am
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In a previous message, Paul T. Root said: > > 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. The geometry I use for the EZ135 is 128/2/32. It works like a champ! -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com Don't Panic --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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