From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 11 18:23:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA25075 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA25070 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA09898; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:53:45 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701120223.MAA09898@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Can you install and run FreeBSD on a Iomega Jaz cartridge? In-Reply-To: <01IE3AF7X1G20000GN@ZEUS.ED.RAY.COM> from "Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.ed.ray.com" at "Jan 11, 97 02:58:00 pm" To: Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.ed.ray.com Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:53:44 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] 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 Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.ed.ray.com stands accused of saying: > Can you install and run FreeBSD on a Iomega Jaz cartridge? With a few caveats, yes. > I was thinking that you might want to have a swap partition on > a local disk, but could all the ufs partitions be on the Jaz? You could swap on the Jaz as well; they perform quite well. > that way you could load the operating system-de-jour cartridge > [dos, win95, winnt, linux, freebsd, ...] > and let the boot manager on the physical boot disk find it... This is where you may have problems; many BIOSsen don't consider the Jaz to be a 'bootable' device, because it reports itself as being a removable. With FreBSD at least, you could put the kernel and the 'fbsdboot.exe' program on a DOS partition and boot that, which will then happily talk to the Jaz. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[