Subject: Re: Zip again
To: Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
From: Michael Peters <sailor@oro.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/22/1997 17:43:25
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:

> 
> The three most important things in using a ZIP:
> 1) SBC
 LC3 has it anyway.
> 2) SBC
 LC3 has it anyway.
> 3) SBC
 LC3 has it anyway.
> 
> :)
> 
> Actually, though, I'm serious.  Unless I was using it as the boot disk, i 
> was unable to keep a zip going.  THen I put in an SBC kernel, and can do no 
> wrong.  Just use the 1.4 mkfs, put a 40 in the first "0" that appears in the 
> chart, and it works (as did just about everything else).
> 
> Oh, and remember to have at least a 1k swap partition after the real 
> partition (1k swap is fine).  You *must* create the main partition before 
> the swap, or it will be the "last" partition.

 I was under the impression that as a non-root/boot disk, it wasn't
necessary to have any other partitions on the disk... I'll give it a try
tho... nothing else so far works.

-MDP