Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:53:44 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.ed.ray.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can you install and run FreeBSD on a Iomega Jaz cartridge? Message-ID: <199701120223.MAA09898@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <01IE3AF7X1G20000GN@ZEUS.ED.RAY.COM> from "Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.ed.ray.com" at "Jan 11, 97 02:58:00 pm"
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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 [[
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