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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dragon Knight <dragonknight@dtgnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Bootable ZIP's?
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On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Dragon Knight wrote:

> This Question Does Not Specifically Apply To FreeBSD, And
> Perhaps If I Owned A ZIP Drive My Question Would Be Answered,
> But My Question Is, Is It Possible To Make A ZIP Drive Bootable,
> Like The Floppy Is On This Machine?  If Anyone Has Heard Of
> Anything Like This Please Explain How It Could Be Done, Or Point
> Me In The Direction Of Some Explanatory Materials Of Some Sort.
> If It Can't Be Done,   Thanks Anyway.

It's not necessary to capitalize every word.  The space indicates the
boundary between words. :-)

To answer the question:

1.  Only the IDE and SCSI Zip has the possiblity of doing this.
2.  Not all SCSI controllers support booting removables.
3.  Not all BIOSes support booting IDE removables, if they support them at
    all.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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