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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:51:48 +0100
From:      "Christian Gusenbauer" <cg@iris>
To:        Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: To all fbsdboot and winboot users ...
Message-ID:  <9511290951.ZM4056@IRIS>
In-Reply-To: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> "Re: To all fbsdboot and winboot users ..." (Nov 28, 12:15pm)
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.951128121236.18253B-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>

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On Nov 28, 12:15pm, Howard Lew wrote:
> Subject: Re: To all fbsdboot and winboot users ...
> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Christian Gusenbauer wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'd like to know, if fbsdboot and winboot work with Win95?! Is there
> > anybody out there with some experience?
> >
>
> Yes!  fbsdboot.exe works great!  That's how I got the DTC2278EB
> controller with LBA to run FreeBSD and Win 95 even though the
> controller seems to be incompatible with FreeBSD at first.

That's great, because I don't want to install Win95 right now or then :)!

>
> As for the winboot thing?  I'm not sure what that is.... But all I need to
> do is drop to a DOS prompt.

Winboot is a nice little utility, which allows you to boot FreeBSD out of
a running Windows 3.1. I don't know if it runs with Win95. You may find it
on the 2.0.5 CD in the experimental directory. You can find it on
	fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at in the /pub/soft/unix directory, too.

Christian.

-- 
Christian Gusenbauer
cg@www.ati.khs-linz.ac.at



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