Re: zip in bootup.
Ze Ji Li wrote:
> Is there a boot disk that have the ZIP driver in it? If not, how
>can I make a boot disk with the ZIP driver? By the way, the ZIP
>drive is the parallel version. I like to try out debian on the ZIP drive.
>Thank you very much.
I was just looking into this for a revised version of the FAQ (yes, this
is an FAQ). In the process, I found this mail message from Bruce Perens
which explains what needs to be done:
>> I have one of the IOMEGA ZIP-drives,100MB, parralell version, and was
>> wondering if it is, if it can, and if it will be possible to have one's
>> linux system one of these ZIP disks.
>
>Probably yes.
>
>Make a boot floppy, because the ZIP isn't directly bootable.
>Hand-edit the syslinux.config parameters in the boot floppy to add
> root=<device>. Make sure that the correct device exists in /dev .
>Build a custom kernel with the "ppa" driver linked in, because the root
> filesystem can't come from a module.
>
>This is a low-performance solution, but can be used to advantage as an
>installation disk in installing Debian on a number of systems - for example
>in a computer lab. Our installation system will let you put base1_1.tgz on
>the ZIP and will then not require the base floppies. You can also put Debian
>packages on the ZIP drive and use dpkg-scanpackages to build a Packages file
>for each ZIP disk so that "dselect" will work with them.
>
> Bruce
>
I have more notes on this in the revised FAQ, which I will upload later
today (I hope).
Susan Kleinmann
sgk@tiac.net
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