Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, craigh@bugsoft.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple install questions Message-ID: <199605022207.PAA02548@mistery.mcafee.com> In-Reply-To: <199605020421.NAA27563@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 2, 96 01:51:58 pm
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> > 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
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