Re: Linux Installation from Parallel Zip Drive

Victor M.=?iso-8859-1?Q?D=EDez?= G. (vmdiez@telcel.net.ve)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:48:59 -0400


How can I do to install a Parallel port Zip Drive over Linux?

"Eric C. Friedrich" wrote:

> Hi-
> I've been trying to install slackware linux from a zip disk onto an
> old computer of mine. This computer is and old 386SX, with ESDI disk
> interfaces. My ZIP Drive is the parallel port version. When I boot
> with the iomega.s image, it doesnt detect the disk and returns "error 1".
> I believe that if I can modify the boot disk to look at the correct parallel
> port (0x3 instead of 0x378), I can use the Zip disk with the linux disk
> sets on it to the new system. So my problem is modifying the boot disk
> image to look on 0x instead of 0x378. Can anyone offer some advice on
> how to do that, or if a to rebuilding of the kernel is needed, how to
> do that so it would be like the iomega.s disk but with the parallel port on
> the ppa driver changed.

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