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