Hi Gertjan I made myself a system like this, just to see. Debian detects the ZIP drive on startup, so you must have the drive attached AND a disc in the drive at this time.
You can then proceed as for a 'normal' installation. The big drawback is that the parallel port drive is so slow, at least with the current driver. I'm going to follow up the recent post about a faster one! I would recommend the SCSI version for performance, though. Also, there's only about 80-90M free if you put a swap partition of the disk as well. Interesting exercise, though. Best of luck! cheers, Robert Varley Trowbridge, Wilts On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: > How can I convince Debian to install itself on an umsdos ZIP disk? The > kernel on the rescue disk doesn't have the umsdos filesystem built-in. I > would like to try and create a small Debian system that I can boot with > loadlin, on a ZIP disk that I can transport to other computers. Is this > feasible? > > TIA, > Gertjan. > > -- > Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
