From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 04:11:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA28761 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.scancall.no (www.scancall.no [195.139.183.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA28753 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no) Received: from super2.langesund.scancall.no [195.139.183.29] by www with smtp id KGMBRAQJ; Wed, 25 Nov 98 12:11:10 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.04r6) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981125131056.00973c10@mail.scancall.no> X-Sender: Marius@mail.scancall.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:10:56 +0100 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Robert Nordier From: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Cc: hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <50490.911994980@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Indeed. These days, most people just want an icon on their Win98 >desktops they can click to boot into FreeBSD and Windows just doesn't >make provisions for that kinda thing. :-) I think it's probably a bit I think that should be fairly simple to do. After all, IIRC, it has support for boot-out to DOS to run various games. One could probably use that feature. >of functionality which is on its way out and people are going to start >having to rely increasingly on boot managers. Actually, speaking of win98 icons, the idea of using the umsdosfs idea from linux, or using OS/2 Extended Attribute files, to extend FAT to support the various freebsd-isms, and implementing this as a root filesystem might be a good thing. That would make it easier for a lot of people to "check it out" and such. Is this purely catering to the lusers which need win98 to autostart their CDs, or ...? --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message