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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP drive as a FreeBSD system disk
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:35:18 +1000
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Gabor Kincses wrote:
> 
> AFAIK, the IDE ZIP drive is ATAPI-based and some new BIOSes (Award) will
> support booting from it.  I wonder if a reasonably configured FreeBSD
> image would fit onto one.

I have two SCSI Zip drives.  With a 16 MB root partition, 16 MB swap,
and 64 MB /usr (it's only a 96 MB drive despite the marketing hype about
100 MB) I can fit a binary-only FreeBSD system onto a single cartridge
and it works just fine!  Useful as a portable FreeBSD system and as an
emergency recovery system if I ever need to do one...

Tony