From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 15:03:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29540 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29531 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA01436; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:02:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Aly Dharshi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip Disk!!! In-Reply-To: <3557457C.771DAAFE@ULETH.CA> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 May 1998, Aly Dharshi wrote: > I want to try and install the minimum Freebsd on a zip disk and the > ability to boot it up from a floppy disk and run the rest of the zip > drive/ zip disk. I would also like to have access to the X - windows > system. > > The question is is it possible? Conceivably. You must have a SCSI zip AND your SCSI controller must support treating a removable as a bootable volume. My NCR/Symbios controller doesn't but you can flag Adaptecs to do it. The boot floppy just has to have the bootblocks on it - once there, type 'sd(0,a)/kernel' to fire it up. 0 = unit number of Zip. I'm tempted to try this, if I can get my hands on another Zip. I don't want to buy one since removable media is not cost-effective. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message