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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
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Message-ID: <41rjiq$1vr@hathor.mch.sni.de>
References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> <41rdok$i1b@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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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
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