Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:01:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Laura Blake <lblake@ican.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a little help deciding... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980406125520.18904M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3527EED6.4F3@ican.net>
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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Laura Blake wrote: > 1) My $#@^ modem is plug and play programmed for i/o port every time I > reboot my system. While this will survive most warm boots, it will not > survive a hard reset. The problem is that the "PNPSET" utility I use > under DOS does not have a BSD, LINUX, or whatever equivalent. Yuck. :( Try installing 2.2.6 then rebuilding a kernel with PnP installed. It might pick up the modem. Hopefully this isn't like the Winmodem which requires programming :( > 2) Once in DOS it would be necessary to jump to BSD. Preferably through > a simple command like "GOBSD" that can be entered at the dos prompt. I > do not want my second OS to actually run "under" DOS, but I will need to > be able to start it from DOS. There's a program called `fbsdboot' you can run to start the kernel. It overwrites the DOS memory image so to get back you have to reboot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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