Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone installed FBSD using a SCSI ZIP drive? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911204123.16497B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970911102106.37614@strand.iii.co.uk>
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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > I was considering taking a ZIP disk, putting a file system on it and laying > out the bindist on top of that. Since the ZIP drive on my target machine > will be SCSI, I assume sysinstall will spot it and let me use it as a normal > drive. As long as the SCSI controller is supported, that is true. > During installation I can then select the "install from another filesystem" > option, and have it suck the bindist from the ZIP drive. Should. I'm tempted to test this but I don't have a hack box handy to do it with. Of course, this assumes you have a UFS-formatted ZIP disk. I don't know if sysinstall knows how to mount DOS partitions that are on ZIPs. If you don't know how to format a ZIP disk for UFS use see my tutorial at http://resnet.uoregon.eud/dwhite/makedisk.html. > If I get this working I'll write up a tutorial on the subject, and also > try and use my new resources to build a boot floppy with the necessary > bits in it to let the parallel port ZIP drive work as well. I imagine > this will be handy for some people. That would be cool! Keep us posted on your progress. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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