HOWTO : Add a zip drive to the MacBSD system ============================================ Francis Fang As per request of the mac68k port group, here's the 'howto' for formatting and mounting Iomega's Zip disks on the MacBSD OS. As it turns out, it is fairly simple. I'm sure that there are a number of ways to do this but this is how I did mine and it seems to work just fine. At this point, I make the assumption that you have MacBSD working and have a Zip drive attached to your Macintosh and are able to mount Zip disks in the MacOS. If there are questions as to termination or hookup, please refer to your Zip Drive manual and/or computer manual. o First thing we need to do is format the Zip disk. The utility that I use is Alliance Power Tools(APS) 2.7.3. This is available from ftp://dunkin.princeton.edu/pub/jagubox/mac/APS273.sit.hqx according to the MacBSD INSTALL notes. o In APS, I select the SCSI id corresponding to the Zip drive and click on Partition to re-partition the disk. o Answering Yes to Destroy current partitions, I then select Choice B - A/UX partitioning with optional Mac OS partitions, and answer Yes to accept setup for A/UX version 3.0 instead of 2.0x. o I then choose Choice A for A/UX System Drive with MacOS partitions and/or optional free area and then enter the size in blocks of the A/UX root partition - 145230 blocks (max root partition size). 36864 blocks for the swap partition and 6144 blocks for eschatology partition, and finally answering Yes to allocate nearly all remaining blocks to a free partition. o Accept the proceed dialog by clicking OK. o When the partitioning done, it should tell you that it was successful and at this point, we're done with APS. Click Done to get out of the Map view dialog and quit APS. o Next, we need to format the partition for MacBSD using the Mkfs utility that you used to prepare your hard drive for MacBSD. o Start Mkfs. o Select the SCSI ID of the Zip drive. o Select Root&Usr slice 0 and click on Format. o Enter the following settings : Sector Size : Block Size : Bytes/Sector(Hdware): 512 Bytes/Cylinder : Sectors/Track : 32 Tracks/Cylinder : Num Cylinders : 96 Bytes/Inode : Cylinders/Group : Spare Sectors/Track : File System Size : 145230 * Alternatively, you can use these settings : Sector Size : 512 Block Size : Bytes/Sector(Hdware): Bytes/Cylinder : Sectors/Track : 40 Tracks/Cylinder : 512 Num Cylinders : 2046 Bytes/Inode : Cylinders/Group : Spare Sectors/Track : File System Size : 145230 * Observation : the first group of settings seem to give me a little more space available (according to df) than the second. o Click OK and then Format. o The formatting takes place, and then a dialog comes up saying that the program is finished. Click on I Read it to exit Mkfs. o Next, we boot MacBSD with the booter app. (I boot directly into multiuser using Booter 1.8) o Login as root. o Run fsck on the Zip drive : eg. fsck /dev/sd1a (if you only have one hard disk mounted on /dev/sd0a). o Create a mount point : eg. mkdir /zip o Now, mount the disk : mount -t ufs /dev/sd1a /zip o If it all worked, do a df and you should see your Zip disk listed. o Finally, if you plan to use the Zip disk every time you boot MacBSD, you can add a line to the /etc/disktab file to have it mount automatically. Please let me know if there are steps that need clearing up or need to be re-written. I can be reached at mailto:francis-fang@uiowa.edu . CREDITS. Steve Bowers, Johnny C Lam and Don Woodward Jr. --============_-1381427217==_============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ___________________________________________________________________________ University of Iowa Voice : (319) 384 3726 FAX : (319) 384 3707 --============_-1381427217==_============--