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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:16:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question.
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On 6 Jan 1998, Dave Marquardt wrote:

> > > 100MB ZiP drive, and am trying to find out if it is at all possible for me
> > > to partition a zip disk and put two boot sectors on it, to dual boot os'es
> > > from the zip drive, it is a parralel drive. 
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It'd need BIOS support for the parallel Zip.  Good luck. :-/

> Could you really boot off the parallel version?  I assumed John was
> speaking of a SCSI Zip drive, though he didn't actually say so one way
> or another.

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