Re: boot from zip drive?

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:06:29 +0000 (GMT)


On 26 Mar 1998, Neal Becker wrote:

> Can linux boot from a zip drive? How is it done?

SCSI zip drive: yes, so long as your SCSI adapter has a suitable bios.
Parallel port zip drive: no, but you can put a kernel with ppa suport on a
floppy disk and use the zip as a root filesystem.

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