Subject: Re: Zip problems
To: Paul Callaghan <Paul.Callaghan@flinders.edu.au>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/26/1996 17:15:26
> 
> Hi,
>   I've just tried to boot netbsd 1.2 on a mac IIsi with 9M ram, located on
> a zip disk. I've installed 1.1 on a 40M hard disk before, and it booted
> nicely. I looked at the HOWTO on zip disks, and was able to set it up with
> out problems, installing the filesystem, then the binaries. Using booter
> 1.9.4, it started the boot also without problems, but after it asked if I
> wanted to proceed, it spits out the zip disk. I put it back in quickly, and
> the system started up OK until it got to the sd1a, I think. It would not
> recognise the zip disk as a valid drive (ficticious geometry). I'm still a
> learner, how do you trap the output of the boot to file?. Thanks for any
> help.

Don't worry too much about the ficticious geometry complaint. My zip
always seems to work fine (though I don't boot from it). Did the boot
hang at one point?

Take care,

Bill