Re: bootable zip disks

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:49:59PM -0700, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve Borho wrote: > > > Check the ZIP-Install mini-howto > > It only addresses parallel port zip drives and since they can't be booted > directly, there is no mention of how to make a zip disk bootabl

Re: bootable zip disks

2000-05-25 Thread Richard Harvey Chapman
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve Borho wrote: > Check the ZIP-Install mini-howto It only addresses parallel port zip drives and since they can't be booted directly, there is no mention of how to make a zip disk bootable. R. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subje

Re: bootable zip disks

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:18:01PM -0700, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote: > 1) My bios (and old ones, too) always seem to detect the drive parameters > for an IDE Zip drive incorrectly. I think it's supposed to be > CHS = 96,64,32 and my bios (or linux) always finds it to be > CHS = 32,64,96. I'

bootable zip disks

2000-05-25 Thread Richard Harvey Chapman
1) My bios (and old ones, too) always seem to detect the drive parameters for an IDE Zip drive incorrectly. I think it's supposed to be CHS = 96,64,32 and my bios (or linux) always finds it to be CHS = 32,64,96. I've tried "Lilo: linux hdd=96,64,32 hdd=noprobe", but that doesn't seem to work.