From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 14:54:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA15898 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:54:25 -0700 Received: from healer.com (healer-gw.Empire.Net [205.164.80.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA15890 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:54:09 -0700 Received: (from gryphon@localhost) by healer.com (8.6.11/8.6.9.1) id RAA22156; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:57:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:57:24 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon Message-Id: <199509272157.RAA22156@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@freebs.org, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk From: Terry Lambert > > > 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 ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 3 Hansom Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...