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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> It [zip drive] worked with imm.o
> 
> Is there some easy way I could add imm.o to initfs.gz on the disk I 
> made from blppaz.gz?  Then hopefully it would work on either type 
> of parport drive (it would try to insmod ppa and if that failed 
> imm).

OK. This assumes the floppy (ext2fs) is mounted on /fd. You'll need a
little writable space somewhere else. A ramdisk or hard drive, mounted
on /hd will work.

cp /fd/boot/initfs.gz /hd
gunzip /hd/initfs.gz
umount /fd
mount -o loop /hd/initfs /fd
cp imm.o /fd/lib/modules/2.2.16

Now, edit /fd/linuxrc. insmod ppa is on line ten. You can add insmod
imm right afterward.

umount /fd
gzip /hd/initfs

Remount the disk on /fd and:

mv /hd/initfs.gz /fd/boot

> I could also replace the kernel with one that does sound, etc.  
> Even a 2.4 bare.i should fit.

Just replace /fd/boot/zimage with your favorite one. Make sure
to update the modules, if necessary.

> How would I copy this disk to a file again?  I copied from file to 
> disk with dd, can I use it to copy from disk to file and gzip the 
> result?

Yes.

> Iomega said linux supports zip drives from kernel 2.2.14 on.

Correct.

David
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