From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 17:30:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F7215013; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03644; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:28:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200001130128.SAA03644@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: [OT] DOS-in-ROM (was Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels) In-Reply-To: from Bob K at "Jan 11, 0 08:39:13 pm" To: melange@yip.org (Bob K) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:28:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, boing@boing.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Bob K wrote: > Just as an aside, I spent all day today using an 80286 laptop with > DOS-in-ROM (running TeleMate off a floppy). Now this has got me wondering > if PicoBSD would run on that thing... Don't think so. The FreeBSD kernel needs 80386 hardware registers and memory management at the minimum. On the other hand, I bought (flea market, $25) a Compaq 386/20 laptop with an 80Mb hard drive and 4Mb of RAM. It boots and runs FreeBSD. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message