On Friday November 23, 2001 08:23 am, you wrote: > Thanks as this Compaq 200MHZ box I may install Linux on has a zip drive > and would like to archive items onto the zip cartridges prior to > reformatting the drive. > > One question: can Linux read the format of a zip cartridge? short answer: yes long answer: there is no "zip cartrige" format. A zip drive is nothing mre than a standard disk drive in every way except for capacity and being removable, you can format a zip disk with any filesystem you want (even ext2)
