Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:48:36 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, avarela@avlnet.ml.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new machine config Message-ID: <19980831144836.A26388@astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808311710.KAA21770@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:10:20AM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980828202003.2309A-100000@stuka.avlnet.ml.org> <199808311710.KAA21770@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:10:20AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > I'm one of the newest kids in town. So, here I go with my first newbie > >question: Is there a utility similar to loadlin.exe capable of loading a > >FreeBSD kernel from a DOS environment? > > Some of us who use FreeBSD haven't a clue as to what things might do (or > be documented to do) in a Microsoft environment. For example, I have no > idea what "loadlin.exe" might be intended to do. > > If you were to describe the intended behavior, you might get a little > further. I appreciate your sentiments, but he did explain what he wanted to do. He wants to load a FreeBSD kernel from a DOS environment. (That's what loadlin.exe does for Linux.) I think that's what fbsdboot.exe does, but I have never used it. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Inertia is a property of matter. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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