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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
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> > Lab full of nominally DOS machines which you wish to subvert to BSD
> > using netboot and msdosfs.  8-).
> 
> Wait, you want to keep the existing DOS partition and boot it FreeBSD?
> 
> If you just want to use the machines as FreeBSD machines then all you
> need to do is use whatever disk is in there (40MB is easily enough for
> local config and remote boot information).
> 
> Otherwise you'd be booting off what: a floppy?

A remote server, via bootp, using the netboor.com file you can build
in the /sys/i386 subdirectory (already in the source tree).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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