Booting from a zip drive

Is this possible. If so anyone want to tell me how to?

sk8,
There are two ways to boot a Zip disk on the Lombard:
- Use the third-party VST Zip100 media bay drive; you can find used drives on eBay and probably some Mac-oriented sellers of used hardware.
- Use a SCSI Zip drive and the same regarding used drives. You will need an HDI-30 connector for the powerbook's SCSI port.
The Lombard does not support USB booting...this feature was added to the Pismo and only for 9.x.
You can also find VST and MCE media bay HDs that will boot the Lombard.

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Quote from: RemusM on 12-June-14, 17:51:30
The P965 Neo motherboard is 8 years old, so don't expect miracles. .... You need to format the USB stick in the proper way. You may use this utility to do it: hxxp://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/ Also, it's a good idea to use the first (USB0) connector (controlled by Intel ICH8) for the USB flash drive. Good luck.
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