Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:28:03 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: cg@www.ati.khs-linz.ac.at Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To all fbsdboot and winboot users ... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951129112603.23860D-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <9511290951.ZM4056@IRIS>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > On Nov 28, 12:15pm, Howard Lew wrote: > > Subject: Re: To all fbsdboot and winboot users ... > > On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'd like to know, if fbsdboot and winboot work with Win95?! Is there > > > anybody out there with some experience? > > > > > > > Yes! fbsdboot.exe works great! That's how I got the DTC2278EB > > controller with LBA to run FreeBSD and Win 95 even though the > > controller seems to be incompatible with FreeBSD at first. > > That's great, because I don't want to install Win95 right now or then :)! > > > > > As for the winboot thing? I'm not sure what that is.... But all I need to > > do is drop to a DOS prompt. > > Winboot is a nice little utility, which allows you to boot FreeBSD out of > a running Windows 3.1. I don't know if it runs with Win95. You may find it > on the 2.0.5 CD in the experimental directory. You can find it on > fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at in the /pub/soft/unix directory, too. > So is winboot the same as fbsdboot except that it's a windows version? Or here's a hopeful thought... You don't mean I can boot up FreeBSD and run it as a task in Windows right?
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