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Name: Alex Date: October 8, 2001 at 13:13:52 Pacific
Comment:
Just wondering.. I bought a 100MB ZIP drive for my (obviously)100MB ZIP disks. In my BIOS setup it reports I can boot from one. Does this mean that I could install DOS and Windows 3.1 on one ZIP Disk and run it from the first boot device? Thanks Alex
Name: Archaic Date: October 8, 2001 at 17:47:49 Pacific
Reply:
Hope so, cuz I want to try it with a laptop with dead HDD controller, currently running Arachne browser and cut-down DOS on a RAM-drive launched from a single bootable floppy.
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Response Number 2
Name: spot Date: October 8, 2001 at 18:49:32 Pacific
Reply:
If it is an internal ide Zip drive, it should work. If it's the parallel port variety, it won't.
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Response Number 3
Name: N1 Date: October 8, 2001 at 19:53:06 Pacific
Reply:
spot is correct "If it is an internal ide Zip drive, it should work."
unfortunately i have to use a bootdisk to run DOS 6.22 & Win 3.1 from my external SCSI Zip100 Drive... HTH...N1
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Response Number 4
Name: Michael Date: October 9, 2001 at 07:15:03 Pacific
Reply:
What N1 says is correct. You can install DOS/Win 3.11 on a Zip Disk and boot the computer using a dos bootdisk. I have detailed the process in this post: http://computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/7793.html
Hope that helps, -Michael
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Response Number 5
Name: Alex Date: October 9, 2001 at 10:56:39 Pacific
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