From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 09:32:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA00402 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00393 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <53518(3)>; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:31:08 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04213; Fri, 19 Jan 96 12:30:59 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19193; Fri, 19 Jan 96 12:30:56 EST Message-Id: <9601191730.AA19193@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: jlrobins@zappa.cs.uncc.edu Cc: TKH@altagas.altagas.ca (Tim K. Hodgson), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows 95 Compatability In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:42:59 PST." <9601190443.AA07101@zappa.cs.uncc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:30:49 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I just had an article in the linux journal about booting issues and running dosemu...much of what I said can be modified for freebsd I always seem to have problems with booteasy...what I like is a dos based loader... Linux uses loadlin which works like a champ... freebsd had fbsdboot...it worked for a while, but when I got another machine (a packard bell), it can't boot properly anymore (I have to look more at it). What I'm doing is when I want to boot freebsd, I boot from floppy and quickly enter wd(0,a)/kernel There's a window based booting program, which idenifies the kernels correctly (so it can read the filesystem...I don't know why fbsdboot isn't working... What I now think I'm going to do is boot linux/windows/dos/freebsd out of a config.sys menu... Also, if booteasy was modified, can a newer version be put on simtel? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom