From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 19 8:15:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BFE15730 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 08:15:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega. (dialup1-13.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.140]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18384; Wed, 19 May 1999 18:14:47 +0300 (EEST) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother [192.168.1.1]) by vega. (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA02839; Wed, 19 May 1999 18:14:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <3742D561.2BEDEFD1@altavista.net> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:14:41 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@altavista.net Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Thyer Cc: "Carlos C. Tapang" , Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE) References: <006201bea0ae$7e656340$0d787880@apex.tapang> <3742C3CF.B8ADD15F@camtech.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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