Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:

        In fact ZIP  drive mimics like IDE  hard drive. I.e. it has partition
        table, partitions  etc. So, try to  change  partition ID, populate it
        with disklbael and so on.. It should work OK.

> Hi,
> I've a PC with only a zip drive - no floppy. The bios claims to be able to
> boot from a ZIP, but I've not found the way to do it yet. I tried to dd the
> bootfloppy-big image, and to handle it as a regular disk drive (fdisk -i,
> fdisk -u, disklabel and installboot); but none worked (the PC either hangs
> or resets).
> Has someone been able to boot from a ZIP drive ?
> 
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> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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