From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 1:11:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5281537B402 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from Presarionb (unknown [208.186.109.82]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A030A2273B for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:11:13 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:09:52 -0700 To: FreeBSD Questions From: Lorin Lund Subject: Diskette-less install program X-Mailer: Opera 5.11 build 904 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20020216091113.A030A2273B@ns1.infowest.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm working on an install procedure oriented to first-timers where I am assuming a single drive PC running Windows. I'm writing a program which will run under Windows to do BIOS write by sector to load the partition with just some basic things so that it is bootable and can run sysinstall. I plan to have my program modify autoexec.bat to run FIPS and then my program. I know this can work under Win98 but I don't have access to a WinME machine or a WinXP machine to see if this kind of thing can work. Has anyone run FIPS on these versions of Windows? Does the typical home PC nowdays come with WinXP? Is that with FAT32 filesystem or NTFS? Anyone interested in helping me test this please contact me off list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message