From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 21:35:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3652537B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 21:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAF143E4A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 21:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdb2@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu ([12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021007043538.UJHH6431.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@u.washington.edu>; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 04:35:38 +0000 Message-ID: <3DA10F0B.70809@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 21:35:23 -0700 From: paul beard Organization: University of Washington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020927 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bancroft Mason Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating boot disk References: <20021007033143.59008.qmail@web9607.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bancroft Mason wrote: > > greetings, > > I have a powerbook G3 with an internal zip drive. I was wondering if it would > be possible to create a FreeBSD boot disk such that I could use it as a kind of > "rescue disk" if the HD fails (which is running OS X). If possible, what and > how would I install the boot, root, and/or kernel the 100MG zip drive? FreeBSD won't run on the PBook G3. I would suggest burning a default/clean install to CD and keep that in your case. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message