[ale] Backpack parallel port cd-rom?

[Stephen R. Wylie]

On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Arnold D. Robbins wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:40:53 -0500
> From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <arnold at colorstar.com>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] Backpack parallel port cd-rom?
> 
> Does anyone know if Linux supports the "Backpack" CD-ROM that hooks up
> to the parallel port?  I'm getting ready to get one, and want to be able
> to use it to install Linux (red hat 4.0).

I would refer to the message from the redhat folx posted previously...
their attitude appears to be "get a 'real' CD-ROM"

I am not familiar with this device, but their parallel port Zip drivers
work well so I wouldn't close the door on installing linux with it. I
wouldn't count on installing red hat, however. I prefer slackware, myself,
and I've never had any problems making any custom kernel boot disks for
it, either. It *does* help to know what needs to be configured into the
kernal, how to lilo the bootdisk & rdev flags for the kernal image...

drop me a line if you need any advice or wanna hear some of my war
stories... I've done it before...


srw
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