Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:14:41 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.com.au> Cc: "Carlos C. Tapang" <ctapang@easystreet.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE) Message-ID: <3742D561.2BEDEFD1@altavista.net> References: <006201bea0ae$7e656340$0d787880@apex.tapang> <3742C3CF.B8ADD15F@camtech.com.au>
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Matthew Thyer wrote: > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22 > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel > and hence the whole system. Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with older DOS just to run FBSDBOOT - it simply enough to make "native" FreeBSD boot floppy with /boot/loader and hacked /boot/loader.conf to boot kernel from your hard drive, so it seems that FBSDBOOT now totally useless :( Sincerely, Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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