From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 22:57:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA28790 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA28780 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01687; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00750; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:59:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:59:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Richard Heller cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html In-Reply-To: <199610140400.AAA12097@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Richard Heller wrote: > Is there a way to boot FreeBSD from the DOS command line? I would prefer to > keep both DOS and Unix on my system and it would be nice to be able to boot > Unix from the config.sys menu. Grab /usr/mdec/fbsdboot.exe and run that. It won't co-operate with you memory managers, or such, so if you want to run it from autoexec.bat based on a dos5 config.sys menu, you'll want to not load emm386 and such. I actually use Win95 and just have an account "fbsd" which automatically runs fbsdboot.exe. Alternatively, if you don't mind having a boot manager, installing something like os/bs (look in the `tools' directory on ftp.freebsd.org, I think), is a much better and nicer solution. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk