>>>>> "F" == F Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote: >> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active >> partition. Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold a Mac-compatible partition table and (of course) a Macintosh file system. The 2.4 kernel has support for several partitioning schemes, including Macintosh. So it should be possible to mount such a disk. F> I thought it's got something to do with MS DOS/Win. There was a F> discussion about ZIP drives on this list a couple of weeks ago were F> someone metioned this. I've glanced through that discussion. IIRC, it tricks DOS/Windows so it assigns a drive letter first to all fixed partitions, and then to the ZIP drive. That way, the letters stay the same if you boot without a disk in the drive. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
