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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.ecrc.de!news.mch.sni.de!horus.mch.sni.de!hathor.mch.sni.de!not-for-mail From: awan@hathor.mch.sni.de (Hans Wander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD Date: 28 Aug 1995 07:18:18 +0200 Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG Lines: 39 Message-ID: <41rjiq$1vr@hathor.mch.sni.de> References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> <41rdok$i1b@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: hathor.mch.sni.de Hi Brian, In article <41rdok$i1b@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > > Try Alt-F4 during the 2.0.5 installation process. It >automatically fires up an emergency holographic shell on that console >for you to fiddle with. Yes, you can even play around with it while >the installer is copying files to your disk in the main console. I know this feature: the 'holographic' shell; it's nice and helpfull but: - it's chrooted to /mnt (no ps possible) - it's started too late My idea was: start the FreeBSD installer; start a shell via Alt-F4 MAKEDEV /dev/sd4 (the SCSI Id of the Zip drive is 5; only 5 or 6 are possible) Let the installer do the dirty work of fdisk-ing, disklabel-ing and newfs-ing the Zip disk. Next I mounted the boot floppy, but only one file ('kernel') is visible. my idea: MAKEDEV /dev/sd4 on the boot floppy. I only want that Zip drive get working, nothing more. (Under Dos and Linux it works fine and i's fast: 700kB when reading with dd) Hans >-- >Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao >taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org -- Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme Carl Wery Str. 22, 81739 Muenchen, Germany Tel.: + 49 (89) 636-43496, FAX: + 49 (89) 636-40926 e-mail: Hans.Wander@mch.sni.de