From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 6 13:02:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24397 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24287 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:01:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA18983; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:01:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:01:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Laura Blake cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a little help deciding... In-Reply-To: <3527EED6.4F3@ican.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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