From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 21:20:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA10037 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 21:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10024 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 21:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA27563; Thu, 2 May 1996 13:51:58 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605020421.NAA27563@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: simple install questions To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 13:51:58 +0930 (CST) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, craigh@bugsoft.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605020149.SAA00371@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at May 1, 96 06:49:56 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Dennis stands accused of saying: > > I've heard (but have yet to test) that you can use > LOADLIN.EXE to load a FreeBSD kernel. This is a DOS program Why bother when FBSDBOOT is on the CDrom and the FTP sites? It does basically the same thing, and suffers from the same problems with memory managers 8( > Jim Dennis, -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[