Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:02:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi@uleth.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip Disk!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511145910.1378G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3557457C.771DAAFE@ULETH.CA>
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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Aly Dharshi wrote: > I want to try and install the minimum Freebsd on a zip disk and the > ability to boot it up from a floppy disk and run the rest of the zip > drive/ zip disk. I would also like to have access to the X - windows > system. > > The question is is it possible? Conceivably. You must have a SCSI zip AND your SCSI controller must support treating a removable as a bootable volume. My NCR/Symbios controller doesn't but you can flag Adaptecs to do it. The boot floppy just has to have the bootblocks on it - once there, type 'sd(0,a)/kernel' to fire it up. 0 = unit number of Zip. I'm tempted to try this, if I can get my hands on another Zip. I don't want to buy one since removable media is not cost-effective. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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