Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:40:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting from Microsoft (was: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up)) Message-ID: <19980628104032.A28038@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <35958F9B.26E73D1E@camtech.net.au>; from Matthew Thyer on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 10:04:35AM %2B0930 References: <25683.898937317@time.cdrom.com> <35958F9B.26E73D1E@camtech.net.au>
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On Sunday, 28 June 1998 at 10:04:35 +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> >>> Soon no one will have Windows 95 or earlier so its going to be >>> pretty hard to install FreeBSD from the CD-ROM. >> >> Why do you say that? Win95 is hardly the only, or even most >> recommended, way of staging a CDROM installation. > > OK, I'm not saying people wont be able to install at all. > > I'm just saying that people who try to use the batch file > on the CD-ROM which runs fbsdboot.exe are going to be confused > as to why it crashes all the time (if "options VM86" is in the > generic kernel). > > Somewhere it will have to be documented that Windows 98 users > will have to make the FreeBSD boot floppy and boot from that > to install. > > I haven't tested all combinations and I realise that there > will still be several ways of installing FreeBSD, But I think > it should be documented that certain ways are not going to > work. I've put a lot of effort into making it clear that any attempt to boot FreeBSD from another running operating system or Microsoft product is a matter of luck at the best. That notwithstanding, there's no reason to expect things to stay the way they are: somebody will get around to making it possible to boot from Microsoft's latest. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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