From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 10 17:42:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14541 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA14532 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA10274; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:22:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704110022.RAA10274@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Installation question (2.2.1) To: skb@icey.com Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:22:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <334D7AFB.F23@nicen.icey.com> from "Scott Brown" at Apr 10, 97 05:42:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Can I install 2.2.1 directly from an Iomega Zip-parallel drive? > > Once installed, will the system support that drive? Does your PC BIOS POST routine support booting from an IOmega Zip parallel [port] drive? If you can't boot *any* OS off the drive, then you can't boot FreeBSD off the drive, since "FreeBSD" is a subset of "any OS". 8-). That said, there is a port of a parallel port driver for the Zip drive for FreeBSD. Search the -hackers list archive on www.freebsd.org for more information. I sersiously doubt that you will be able to boot off of *any* parallel port device without booting from floppy or from a real fixed disk first; the default INT 13 routines installed by the BIOS POST simply won't let you use the drive without you loading the IOmega DOS driver, which you can't do until after you boot. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.