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Article #285Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking
From: Dave Marquardt
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 22:37
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 22:37
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Patrick J Cody <pcody@tec.army.mil> writes: > Can PicoBSD be used on a Zip disk instead of a floppy? I've told my PC's BIOS to ignore the IDE disks I had, and I was able to boot DOS off a Zip disk. You can probably install a minimal FreeBSD system on a Zip disk and use it just fine (I've been meaning to try it). As for PicoBSD, I bet you could put it on a Zip disk, but you'll have an awful lot of free space left over! :-) -Dave
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