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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Zip drives and FreeBSD
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On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, james earl wrote:

> Before I buy a Zip drive, could someone tell me first if they can be
> used with FreeBSD?  Also, is it possible to install off of a Zip drive?

Save yourself headaches and buy the SCSI version.

I doubt you could INSTALL off one (maybe thorugh the UFS install...) but
you can definitely put a filesystem on one.  See the archive for the
proper procedure.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major