From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 07:37:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA09884 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 07:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco3.uswest.com [206.196.133.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA09878 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 07:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com (egate.mnet.uswest.com [151.116.23.138]) by uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA21371 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:36:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA04995 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:36:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA05397; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:36:44 -0500 Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA05387; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:36:41 -0500 Received: by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA17481; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:36:08 -0500 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Message-Id: <199607221436.JAA17481@astro.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: SyQuest EzDrive To: durang@u.washington.edu (Ken Marsh) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:36:08 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ken Marsh" at Jul 21, 96 12:05:23 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Ken Marsh said: > > > On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Gecko wrote: > > > > > Can I put FreeBSD on a SyQuest disk and boot from that? > > > > > > In all reality, a fully-functional FreeBSD box needs more than 135 MB > > of disk. > > > > - Justin J. Ashworth > > Don't let this stop you! You don't need so much space to run FreeBSD, only > if you want a complete full-featured install. If you just want to try out > the OS, 135Mb is plenty..... please mail the list if you figure out how to > do this!!!! > > Ken Marsh I don't see why you couldn't do it. The EZ135 is a full function SCSI drive (and IDE for that version?). I use it now as at sd3. The gotcha that I had is that probing it does not come up with the right configuration. It has only 2 heads. It's on my machine at home, so I can't look it up right now, but I'll get the geometry for everyone. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com "We've go to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" --Lee Iacocca, making excuses over Detroit's resistance to tougher automobile emission standards, 1974.