From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 09:29:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA19784 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19773 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA18347; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:21:37 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA07205; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:21:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id SAA17068; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:11:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611201711.SAA17068@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cdrom boot? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:11:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32932F88.6862@utimaco.co.at> from "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" at "Nov 20, 96 05:19:20 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As DI. Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > Make a DOS bootable floppy, copy fbsdboot.exe on it, edit autoexec.bat > and add a line like "fbsdboot -C -D f:\kernel" (f = CD-ROM drive) and that's > it. Dosboot... the source code in the tree looks fairly outdated. Christian, can you see to update it? It would also be fine to find a method to automatically generate the header files out of the genuine headers, so they can't disagree. It would be even better if we could get it to compile with bcc(1) and finally make a .com file out of it. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)