Thanks for that clarification. I think someone went looking for some tar
and feathers. :)
BTW - Someone posted that it would be unwise to reformat for Linux because of
the
lack of Iomega disk tools causing data loss. Please elaborate. We've been
working
and reformatting disks on our Macs sans
That's too easy :) Are there any dependencies I should know about?
Thanks,
Mike
Stef wrote:
I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system
from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive
on the parallel port so I can start installing packages
That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted
fine.
Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that?
Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since
we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with
squeezing
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