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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Booting from NT ?
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:35:15 +0200 (MET DST)
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> > I admit i want to make things difficult, because i cannot have a
> > FreeBSD partition on the disk so i need to boot a kernel from an
> > NTFS partition (not necessarily from NT, even from the boot manager
> > would do but i doubt i can load it!)
> 
> Not really.  Can you use a floppy?  

yes, but i'd rather not; booting a kernel from a floppy is slow as hell
and preparing them is also annoying

	luigi


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