From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 20:44:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA26971 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA26965 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA16525; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: nik@iii.co.uk cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone installed FBSD using a SCSI ZIP drive? In-Reply-To: <19970911102106.37614@strand.iii.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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