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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:31:36 +0200 (EET)
From:      Seppo Kallio <kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        ahill@interconnect.com.au, pbanks@candle.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Run BSD under DOS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960201102916.4706A-100000@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199601311751.KAA10064@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 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

I am using netboot in a lab. It works.

Maybe dosboot (waht is fbsdboot?) is faster to boot. How could I test it?
Is there instructions somewhere?

Seppo



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