Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:10:56 +0100 From: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981125131056.00973c10@mail.scancall.no> In-Reply-To: <50490.911994980@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Sat, 25 Nov 1998 13:02:48 %2B0200." <199811251102.NAA15237@ceia.nordier.com>
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>Indeed. These days, most people just want an icon on their Win98 >desktops they can click to boot into FreeBSD and Windows just doesn't >make provisions for that kinda thing. :-) I think it's probably a bit I think that should be fairly simple to do. After all, IIRC, it has support for boot-out to DOS to run various games. One could probably use that feature. >of functionality which is on its way out and people are going to start >having to rely increasingly on boot managers. Actually, speaking of win98 icons, the idea of using the umsdosfs idea from linux, or using OS/2 Extended Attribute files, to extend FAT to support the various freebsd-isms, and implementing this as a root filesystem might be a good thing. That would make it easier for a lot of people to "check it out" and such. Is this purely catering to the lusers which need win98 to autostart their CDs, or ...? --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS <marius@scancall.no> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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