At 02:20 PM 02/15/2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Is it true that freebsd can't boot from a zip drive? > >No. > >You can't boot from the parallel-port drives, but that's a feature of the >PC not expecting to be able to boot from a printer rather than a FreeBSD >issue. > >I've personally booted FreeBSD from the old, old ATA Zip drives, the >ATAPI ones and of course the SCSI drives, in both whole-disk and >sliced (as from the factory) modes. I believe you, but no-one seems to know how to do it. FreeBSD seems to get confused between the hard drive and the ZIP and it becomes a mess very quickly. This is with ATAPI IDE drives btw. Whats the "trick"? Dennis >-- >... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his >rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want >to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force >people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
