From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 12:59:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29060 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:59:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29052 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:59:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA13645; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:54:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602012054.NAA13645@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Run BSD under DOS To: kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:54:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, ahill@interconnect.com.au, pbanks@candle.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Feb 1, 96 10:34:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I know :-) it is after this paragraph. > Terry, I am 100% sure you do not want I try it after rereading it. > It is some time I read it first time and understood very little and ... > some base level questions: how to define root partition, swap, /etc, must > I have FreeBSD partition ... OK maybe the idea of this is to boot FreeBSD > from dos and have a FreeBSD partition ready to mount? Yes so it must be. > I tryet to use it as netboot having NFS root etc. Yes. You must have a partition set up. The difference is that instead of using a boot manager, you boot to DOS and run the program to "reboot" from a running DOS into FreeBSD. > Everything is so opvious to you experts that you do not see how little > you tell what is the purpose of your tools. That one isn't my tool, actually. For the tools that I did, I provided sample usage and sample code (ie: I made one of each allowable type of LKM when I wrote the LKM system, and supplied a large rationale document, on the order of a Usenix paper's worth of information). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.