Date: 06 Jan 1998 07:47:34 -0600 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.5 Dual boot question. Message-ID: <85ra6l7lzd.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:42:38 -0800 (PST) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105204147.1402o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> writes: > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, john wrote: > > I have a very strange question that I have not been able to get answered or > > even find documentation on. The question is this, I have a Epson Iomega > > 100MB ZiP drive, and am trying to find out if it is at all possible for me > > to partition a zip disk and put two boot sectors on it, to dual boot os'es > > from the zip drive, it is a parralel drive. The reason I ask you at freebsd > > is because I am a FreeBSD 2.2.5 user and cannot find the answer to this > > question. I am trying to dual boot FreeBSD2.2.5 and possibly another form > > of UNIX/LINUX. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. Thank you. > > You have to find the parallel version drivers first. Check the mail > archives. If you want to run -CURRENT the new ppbus stuff should support > you. Formatting instructions are at > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. Could you really boot off the parallel version? I assumed John was speaking of a SCSI Zip drive, though he didn't actually say so one way or another. -Dave
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