From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 17:32:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29617 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29606 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA12325 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:32:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00274; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:27:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:27:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: DaZE / TriangL cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zip drive installation. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, DaZE / TriangL wrote: > Wouldn't it be a nice extra for Iomega Zip/Jazz drive owners to be able to > install a future version of any linux distribution from their Zip/Jazz > drive? i think there are enough people interested to implement it :) This ain't Linux, but the idea can still work. To FreeBSD (AFAIK), if you stick a Zip disk in it on bootup, it thinks it's any other SCSI disk. Thus, you could point a DOS install at it, assuming you make a DOS-formatted disk. > I know there are drivers available for several distribution, but as far > as i know there are no distributions around yet which support installing > from Zip/Jazz. Oh, this works for the SCSI version on a supported SCSI controller only. The SCSI controller included with the zip may not be supported at current. I'd have to ask hackers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major