On 7 Sep 1996, Michael Graff wrote:

> Date: 07 Sep 1996 14:41:59 -0400
> From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
> To: Rahim Azizarab <ray@tezcat.com>
> Cc: Sean Berry <spberry@iastate.edu>, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Jaz/Zip drives (was Re: new 1.2BETA /i386 install floppies and kernels)
> 
> Rahim Azizarab <ray@tezcat.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, of course, It will on a scsi, but I am trying to boot from a 
parallel > > port not scsi.
> 
> (1) there is no parallel port ZIP driver in NetBSD (yet)
> (2) how do you think you can convince anything to "boot" from a
>     parallel port anyway?
> 
> --Michael
> 
The BIOS have to be hacked for the PC to boot from parallel port.  
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