From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 02:21:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA09540 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA09525 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 02:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA24608 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:15:41 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA03596; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:21:09 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970911102106.37614@strand.iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:21:06 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Anyone installed FBSD using a SCSI ZIP drive? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do, I'm pondering how to install FreeBSD on (what will be) my new computer. It will have no access to a network, and I don't particularly like the thought of downloading the bindist at modem speeds. I have access to another system at a geographically remote location (specifically, the office) on which I can download the bindist. I was considering taking a ZIP disk, putting a file system on it and laying out the bindist on top of that. Since the ZIP drive on my target machine will be SCSI, I assume sysinstall will spot it and let me use it as a normal drive. During installation I can then select the "install from another filesystem" option, and have it suck the bindist from the ZIP drive. As far as I can tell, this will work. But I'd appreciate confirmation before I try it. So, if there's anyone who's done this before around, could they let me know: a) If the boot floppy will recognise a SCSI ZIP drive (I can't think of any reason why not) b) Assuming I mount the ZIP drive under /mnt, how the files should be layed out under that. I *think* that /mnt/2.2.2-RELEASE/bin/* will be right. If I get this working I'll write up a tutorial on the subject, and also try and use my new resources to build a boot floppy with the necessary bits in it to let the parallel port ZIP drive work as well. I imagine this will be handy for some people. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- Diana, the roadkill formally known as Princess, 1961-1997 NC5-RIPE