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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: ZIP drives?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <DBrBJv.A4x@bonkers.taronga.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:19:07 GMT
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The Iomega ZIP drive looks just big enough to let me install FreeBSD on one,
using the live file system CD, to let me do test installs and stuff pretty
cheaply ($20 per 100M cartridge). Has anyone any input into this?

Especially: has anyone used one under FreeBSD, or booted from one?