Subject: Re: Installing from dos-formatted ZIP drive
To: None <explorer@flame.org, martin.loeffler@utoronto.ca>
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/28/1996 17:04:52
>I mount ZIP disks with no disklabel on them from time to time myself.
>I suspect what the driver is (should) be doing is assuming the msdos
>partition starts at sector 0, which a zip disk without a partition
>table would do. I don't think I partitioned any of the zip disks I
>have.
The zip disks that I have came formatted with a standard DOS partition
table with fake 64H/32S geometry and one nonemoty partition (the last
entry in the table) at offset 32, and a DOS file system in that
partition.
Bruce