From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 09:55:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA21492 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:55:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21484 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA10064; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:51:29 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601311751.KAA10064@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Run BSD under DOS To: kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:51:29 -0700 (MST) Cc: ahill@interconnect.com.au, pbanks@candle.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Jan 31, 96 10:04:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > There is also dosboot, but nobody seems to know how to use it. Idea is > that you have kernel in DOS filesystem and ... docs speak about kernel > root partition (if I remember correct) Maybe it could also be used as > netboot: swap and root in another node (NFS). The idea is that you can load the BSD second stage boot and start it from a DOS program. "DOSBOOT"/"FBSDBOOT" has nothing to do with running with a "/" mounted on a DOS partition. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.