From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 19:35:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA20054 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA20042 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19980106030758.14969.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.234] by send1a; Mon, 05 Jan 1998 19:07:58 PST Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:07:58 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question. To: john , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---john wrote: > > > > I have a very strange question that I have not been able to get answered or > even find documentation on. The question is this, I have a Epson Iomega > 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 To see if you can partition it simply run a partition utility and see if it works (FIPS, FDISK, Partition Magic etc).I see no reason why it wouldn't be but who knows. You don't need two boot sectors, you just need a boot manager, booteasy comes with FreeBSD. I think your only question is whether you can boot off the parallel Zip drive. You may be able to test that by running the DOS sys utility, if the disk is already formatted, and then trying to boot off the drive. Otherwise hit the questions mailing list search engine and see if those drives are bootable. > from the zip drive, it is a parralel drive. The reason I ask you at freebsd > is because I am a FreeBSD 2.2.5 user and cannot find the answer to this > question. I am trying to dual boot FreeBSD2.2.5 and possibly another form > of UNIX/LINUX. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thank you. You realize this will be a very tiny installation, right? > > Edward. > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com