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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:59:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        Richard Heller <rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95.961014015601.123A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199610140400.AAA12097@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>

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On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Richard Heller wrote:

> Is there a way to boot FreeBSD from the DOS command line?  I would prefer to
> keep both DOS and Unix on my system and it would be nice to be able to boot
> Unix from the config.sys menu.

Grab /usr/mdec/fbsdboot.exe and run that.

It won't co-operate with you memory managers, or such, so if you want to
run it from autoexec.bat based on a dos5 config.sys menu, you'll want to
not load emm386 and such.  I actually use Win95 and just have an account
"fbsd" which automatically runs fbsdboot.exe.

Alternatively, if you don't mind having a boot manager, installing
something like os/bs (look in the `tools' directory on ftp.freebsd.org, I
think), is a much better and nicer solution.

--
Outnumbered?  Maybe.  Outspoken?  Never!
tIM...HOEk




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