Re: Debian on an umsdos zip disk
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.
>
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