From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 20:00:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16014 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-k56flex-0036.jumpnet.com [207.8.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15970 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id WAA17065; Mon, 11 May 1998 22:00:16 -0500 (CDT) To: aly.dharshi@uleth.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip Disk!!! References: <3557457C.771DAAFE@ULETH.CA> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 11 May 1998 21:59:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Aly Dharshi"'s message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 12:37:48 -0600" Message-ID: <85btt4jitb.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Aly Dharshi" writes: > 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? I installed a minimal 2.2.6 system on a Zip disk a few days ago. I've also booted 2.2.1 on a SCSI Zip disk. As for adding X, I don't know if you'll have the space for that. Remember you have to partition the 96 MB disk into 2 partitions, one for paging space and another for a filesystem. As for booting, you'll have to figure out how to make a bootable FreeBSD on floppy. You can use the boot.flp stuff in /usr/src/release as a model, or search the mailing list archives for PicoBSD, which is already a small FreeBSD system on a floppy. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message