Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 04:54:38 GMT From: marcus@vastnet.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ZIP disk booting in 4.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <200010030454.AAA14400@mail.svr.vastnet.net>
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Hi all. I'm looking for some resources or tips for using Iomega Zip disks with FreeBSD. I've found handbook entries and examples that explain in pretty good detail how to use msdos filesystems. I'm looking to do something a bit different, though. It seems as if Zip disks must use the "c" partition to use the whole disk. That's fine, I've used disklabel and newfs to setup a partition and filesystem on /dev/afd0c. However, I am completely at a loss as to how to get this thing to boot. I've tried using disklabel on both /dev/afd0 and /dev/afd0c, as well as the /dev/afd0s4 partition that disklabel creates by default. I've tried using different stages of the boot loader to no avail. The BIOS does support booting from Zips, however I'm baffled as to what I'm doing wrong. Also note that I've manually made bootable floppy disks, using disklabel and copying the requisite files from /boot, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with the process. Am I doing something which isn't supported at all? or am I just going about in the wrong manner? Many thanks, Mark Staudinger marcus@vastnet.net (Please CC as usual, I'm not currently subscribed) --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Vastnet WebMail. http://www.vastnet.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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