Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:32:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jose Monteiro <jose.monteiro@co.telenet.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install from iomega Zip Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721092623.1158D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33d93703.11312189@mail.co.telenet.pt>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Jose Monteiro wrote: > Is it possible to install FreeBSD using a boot floppy and an iomega > Zip Drive with the source? Although I haven't tried this, and there may be a question as to if you can cram all of the install stuff in 100MB, concievably it should be possible. You might try doing a DOS install from it, or if it's available, format a disk using UFS and duplicate the CD or FTP heirarchy on it and point to it in a UFS install. The Zip must be a SCSI version and you must have a supported SCSI controller. The parallel version is not supported in the system at current, although a third party driver is available. Just put the disk in before you start and it should be detected as a SCSI disk (sd0). A quick calculate shows that all of it won't fit. You can't put on the entire source at once and still fit bin, X, and the rest on the Zip. Of course, you can always manually extract the source after you're installed. 17345 bin 44272 XF8632 3265 catpages 1403 des 1323 dict 2108 doc 2686 games 1511 info 3912 manpages 38874 src == ~118MB Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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