>I have even made a whole linux system on my parallel port zip disk. I can
>then boot it if I have a system problem. I did this with Slackware, not
>RedHat. I don't see why you couldn't do it with RedHat as long as you
>recompiled your kernel to have the PPA support in the kernel instead of a
As for the mounting ZIP drives under linux.
You can mount a zip disk as linux (ext2) or dos (msdos or vfat)
In order for the ext2 to work, you must create the partition sdX1, and not
sdX4 (dos default).
If you really want, you can put two partitions on a zip disk. I for one put
both an ext2 (sd
