Re: Iomega Zip

[mjv <mjv@mjv.com>]

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 (can't handle a
> > stack of hundreds of floppies).
> 
> You just insmod the module for ZIP. Its in the section of the scsi
> modules (yes, also if your ZIP is not the scsi version, but just the
> parallel port flavour!) Then you can mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip if your
> ZIP disk is an ordinary dos one and you first did a mkdir /mnt/zip. 
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
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