From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 20 6:55:34 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 0728714CFE for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 06:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega. (dialup1-34.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.161]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27406; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:55:35 +0300 (EEST) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother [192.168.1.1]) by vega. (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA05627; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:55:25 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <3744144C.F06FF0C2@altavista.net> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:55:24 +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: "Carlos C. Tapang" Cc: Robert Nordier , Mike Smith , Luoqi Chen , thyerm@camtech.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE) References: <024501bea240$ebb029b0$0d787880@apex.tapang> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Carlos C. Tapang" wrote: > Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my > system are running Windows and don't want to have to reformat or repartition > their hard disk. So I am stuck with the DOS file system. I think the best > solution is to have my users use a FreeBSD boot floppy. The floppy will have > /boot/loader which I will point to the DOS-formatted hard disk in which the > kernel resides. Correct me if I'm wrong, but loader is unable to directly load kernel from non-FreeBSD partition (DOS in your case), so problem is slightly more complicated but I though your can take PicoBSD (FreeBSD on floppy) and tweak it to match your needs. Sincerely, Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message