From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 8:56:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE4114A2F for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id VAA21343; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:54:49 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id UAA01206; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:56:23 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA00520; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:51:46 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:51:45 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dev Young , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD that runs on top of MS-DOS? In-Reply-To: <19990615181135.A521@freebie.lemis.com> 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 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