Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:57:24 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@freebs.org, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509272157.RAA22156@healer.com>
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> > > 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?
> +> You'd be booting off what: a floppy?
> A remote server, via bootp, using the netboot.com file you can build
> in the /sys/i386 subdirectory (already in the source tree).
OK. So it would boot DOS, then run "netboot.com" (dos app) which would boot
FreeBSD off of the remote server over the network. Neat.
Well, either the config can be kept local ("makefile" and "start.mk" both
meet the dos naming conventions) since you are using msdosfs, or they can
be kept remote, and selected based upon machine connection.
I still don't see the problem.
-coranth
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