Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:39:39 -0700 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95 Message-ID: <CAG=rPVfCxk%2BUYsiXqDie%2BnwqKT_DioA_TtBhasvLg=%2Bxo-KeZA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote: > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > Wow, I like your problem. It's really weird, and I like weird problems. :) Since you are looking at automating a complicated process, here is a crazy idea which you might want to consider (1) Get two machines, interconnect them via a small Ethernet switch. (2) Designate one machine as a PXE server, and the other as your test machine (3) Set up a FreeBSD PXE boot environment wit NFS root, as per: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-diskless.html#network-pxe-nfs (4) Figure out how to PXE boot a Windows95 environment. There are articles out there for PXE booting FreeDOS which might be a place to start: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~dbaird/work/2013/11/05/pxe-boot-freedos-hard-disk-image/ On the DHCP server, you can modify dhcpd.conf to change which OS will boot via PXE boot. If you can: -> automate the reboot of your test server -> automate the modification of dhcpd.conf on your PXE server via some process then you might be able to get it to work. :) -- Craig
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