Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:51:45 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dev Young <devon@abreathoflife.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD that runs on top of MS-DOS? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906152044010.285-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <19990615181135.A521@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 15 June 1999 at 4:30:16 -0400, Dev Young wrote: > > Greetings, > > Do you have any versions of FreeBSD that runs on top of MS-DOS like > > slackware's linux zipslack does? > > No. > > > I'm not allowed to repartition the hard drive on this comp, and so > > I'm looking for anything that will allow me to avoid doing such. > > You could try PicoBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/). if you agree to spend enough time, you can try to run PicoBSD with vn(4), with $ vnconfig /dev/vn0c /mnt/dos/image_of_ffs_partition $ vnconfig -e /dev/vn0c myfilesystem mount=/mnt/ffs also i'd recommend to prepare image_of_ffs_partition from already installed FreeBSD (if it's istalled with different /usr,/var,/ - you'll just need to do a bit more work) $ dd if=/dev/special_file_with_already_installed_... of=image_of_ffs_par... unfortunally, i've no idea how to make "/" at vn0c anybody else has ?! > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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