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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: > On 26 Mar 1998, Neal Becker wrote: > > > Can linux boot from a zip drive? How is it done? > The same as with any other OS. Get the BIOS to recognize it as a boot > drive :) > > Andreas > Ok, first only if it's a SCSI zip drive, and then only directly if your SCSI card will let you boot from ID 5 or 6 (I seem to rember those are the options of ID the zip drive allows). The only other way is to use a disk to start a loader (either on a floppy, or a harddisk). Actually a dos floppy with loadlin and a kernel image on is proberbly a good way ;). Bryn - -- PGP Pub key http://www.gytha.demon.co.uk/pubkey.asc ID: 1024/30AF2D69 On-line, adj.: FP: FC 4E 41 9E 64 C3 AB 28 A3 5A 57 F8 CC D9 A7 B8 The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Probably (spelt 'Proberbly') requires PGP version 2.6 or later ;) iQCVAwUBNRrE3+saGi8wry1pAQEUiQP/csdrstYdd6lSSv4zVX7w4X38TjC3yy06 xFTtPJTNAr04LdngjCg7XHU5gbc4dqykqSUKz6CIf98PeOX5wODu4+SM8bv06lfm 1SpB13hPJbMlFfyS+JBlK7ikRj6gQ4BmruLxLq4zL0jiX3ZY9z1X7i4HehXPQeSd vGhHF1a9A54= =QaQ9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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