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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP drive as a FreeBSD system disk Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:35:18 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33A89AE6.77B1@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5o3m93$ah0@usenet.bridge.com> <87@fridaycs.win-uk.net> <33A6ABB8.41C67EA6@acm.org> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43131 Gabor Kincses wrote: > > AFAIK, the IDE ZIP drive is ATAPI-based and some new BIOSes (Award) will > support booting from it. I wonder if a reasonably configured FreeBSD > image would fit onto one. I have two SCSI Zip drives. With a 16 MB root partition, 16 MB swap, and 64 MB /usr (it's only a 96 MB drive despite the marketing hype about 100 MB) I can fit a binary-only FreeBSD system onto a single cartridge and it works just fine! Useful as a portable FreeBSD system and as an emergency recovery system if I ever need to do one... Tony