>I have never used a zip drive, so I have no personal
>experience with this. But, I think it should be possible
>to put a Linux ext2 filesystem on a zip drive. I think
>I heard somewhere that a zip drive is /dev/sda5 (or was
>that /dev/hda5 ? /dev/hde ???). I'm pretty sure it
>was 5-something.
>Cheers,
>Steven
I have experience with Zip drives: external SCSI 100 and 250. Partition is
number 4, thus /dev/sda4 if the Zip drive is /dev/sda. Considering the state of
health of my Zip 250 drive, I wouldn't attempt to install Linux on it. I never
attempted to put a Linux file system on a Zip disk, though I once put a Linux
file system on a SyJet disk. Now the SyJet drive ejects the disk immediately
after spinning up, or a few minutes later.
Now how do you use LOADLIN to use an existing partition for root and not be
prompted to insert a floppy disk for initrd?
