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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.

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