From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 11:49:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08383 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nexus.astro.psu.edu (nexus.astro.psu.edu [128.118.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08378 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@astro.psu.edu) Received: from mstar.astro.psu.edu by nexus.astro.psu.edu (4.1/Nexus-1.3) id AA16911; Mon, 31 Aug 98 14:48:45 EDT Received: by mstar.astro.psu.edu (SMI-8.6/Client-1.3) id OAA26495; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:48:36 -0400 Message-Id: <19980831144836.A26388@astro.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:48:36 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: David Wolfskill , avarela@avlnet.ml.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new machine config References: <199808311710.KAA21770@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <199808311710.KAA21770@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:10:20AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:10:20AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > I'm one of the newest kids in town. So, here I go with my first newbie > >question: Is there a utility similar to loadlin.exe capable of loading a > >FreeBSD kernel from a DOS environment? > > Some of us who use FreeBSD haven't a clue as to what things might do (or > be documented to do) in a Microsoft environment. For example, I have no > idea what "loadlin.exe" might be intended to do. > > If you were to describe the intended behavior, you might get a little > further. I appreciate your sentiments, but he did explain what he wanted to do. He wants to load a FreeBSD kernel from a DOS environment. (That's what loadlin.exe does for Linux.) I think that's what fbsdboot.exe does, but I have never used it. -- Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property of matter. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message