From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 05:48:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA12201 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-1094.jumpnet.com [207.8.67.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA12149 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 05:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id HAA05976; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:48:06 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question. References: From: Dave Marquardt Date: 06 Jan 1998 07:47:34 -0600 In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:42:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <85ra6l7lzd.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White writes: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, 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 > > 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 have to find the parallel version drivers first. Check the mail > archives. If you want to run -CURRENT the new ppbus stuff should support > you. Formatting instructions are at > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. 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. -Dave