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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
