Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:08:11 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from CD..? Message-ID: <199601131338.AAA19459@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <10173.821511639@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 12, 96 09:40:39 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > 2. Take advantage of Win95's `autolaunch' on CD insertion to do > something clever. Not exactly sure WHAT yet, but it's an idea. Cut a boot floppy tailored to the machine (quiz the config database to work out what's installed) and boot it 8) > I was also talking with Poul-H and Joerg about the idea of getting > access to additional command-line args, and how hard that would be. > In particular, I'd like to be able to do something like: > > boot -c aha0=0x330,10;ed0=0x300,10,0xd000 Er. I've been making noises about 'kernel environment variables' for some time; see also Poul's brain wrt. sysctl and the 4k patcharea concept. He never did get back to me with his ideas 8/. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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