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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!info.ucla.edu!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!loddon.demon.co.uk!stuart From: JSB <stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Supported PCMCIA SCSI Adapter for external boot disk ? Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:41:38 +0100 Organization: ... Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <Oq7BcQAiJf+xEwe1@loddon.demon.co.uk> References: <U9ZBUBA5PP8xEwNt@loddon.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: loddon.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: loddon.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.12 <I6wMyTnXOrYuQB7cG5AyBnDG90> Does anyone know if I could boot from a floppy with a mini-root and a kernel pointing to the SCSI device as the main root (I vaguely recall seeing that done for BSDi) ? If so, are there any potential problems (apart from trashing the floppy !) TIA Stuart. In article <U9ZBUBA5PP8xEwNt@loddon.demon.co.uk>, JSB <stuart@loddon.demon.co.uk> writes >Hi, > >I use a notebook with a single disk. Periodically I need to swtich >between FreeBSD, Linux & WfW (yuck). This means exchanging hard disks - >pain. > >Does anyone know of a PCMCIA SCSI adapter which is supported on either >/both of the UNIXes so that I can boot from a SCSI disk attached using >this card (perhaps the Adaptec 1460??) ? > >If not, anyone got other ideas ? > > >TIA >Suart -- JSB