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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!nntp.farm.idt.net!tycheung.millburn.org!user From: tycheung@ultrasparc.millburn.org (Tyler Cheung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: MacBSD2.1 on Zip drive??? Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 17:11:59 -0500 Organization: IDT Lines: 38 Message-ID: <tycheung-2901971711590001@tycheung.millburn.org> References: <maswenso-ya023480002001972247290001@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <5c8vjs$330@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tycheung.millburn.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5256 In article <5c8vjs$330@news.iastate.edu>, rhawkins@iastate.edu (Rick Hawkins) wrote: > In article <maswenso-ya023480002001972247290001@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, > Mark Swenson <maswenso@indiana.edu> wrote: > >Recently I got an Iomega Zip drive and am trying to put MacBSD on it with > >little luck and I would like to know if anyone else has done this or if > >anyone might know what the problem I'm having means. > > I assume you mean 1.2 . . . > > But, yes, i've convinced it to work on a IIci with Zip disk. Thre is a > how-to on the macbsd.org site, which will get you partway there. It > suggests sizes for the root & swap. It doesn't mention that you need to > use mkfs on both, not just the root. (i reused the values for the root > partition for the swap disk). > > I still don't have the networking configured, and it still logs in the > regualr account as root, but i'm partway there. . . > > bsd runs, though. > > rick > -- > R E HAWKINS > rhawkins@iastate.edu > > These opinions will not be those of ISU until they pay my retainer. What settings for block size, sector size, and all those funky numbers did you use for the mkfs application? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tyler Cheung :-) tycheung@ultrasparc.millburn.com cheungnk@alumni.caltech.edu http://www.cheung.millburn.org/