From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 15:09:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA00214 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 15:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00202 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 15:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA02548; Thu, 2 May 1996 15:07:50 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <199605022207.PAA02548@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: simple install questions To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, craigh@bugsoft.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605020421.NAA27563@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 2, 96 01:51:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Jim Dennis stands accused of saying: > > > > I've heard (but have yet to test) that you can use > > LOADLIN.EXE to load a FreeBSD kernel. This is a DOS program > > Why bother when FBSDBOOT is on the CDrom and the FTP sites? It does > basically the same thing, and suffers from the same problems with > memory managers 8( What problems? LOADLIN works with EMM386 and QEMM (and claims VCPI compatibility). It also works as a SHELL= directive in your CONFIG.SYS (handy with the various DOS multi-boot, interactive CONFIG.SYS packages -- like the ones in DOS 6.x and later). If FBSDBOOT has problems with this configurations -- someone might want to steal LOADLIN (it's GPL as far as I know). All of by FreeBSD machines are servers so I don't bother with multi-boot on them. > > Jim Dennis