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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA301 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:01:58 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? Date: 23 Jan 93 15:21:57 Organization: /usr/blymn/.organization Lines: 23 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jan23152157@siren.awadi.com.au> References: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: siren.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: karl@NeoSoft.com's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10:04 GMT >>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10:04 GMT, karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) said: Karl> Plus people who needed to do weird stuff like config a card could do it Karl> with the DOS utility those companies inevitably provide and, you know, Karl> put it in their AUTOEXEC.BAT. Karl> 386BSD.EXE would find the 386BSD partition and load /386bsd in its normal Karl> manner. Karl> The only drawback is you'd need a DOS partition or floppy to do it that Karl> way, no biggie but possibly offensive to purists. What about people that do not own a copy of MS-DOS? I bought my computer specifically do run un*x on and saved myself some money by not buying messy-loss (believe me, that felt gooood :-) I would object vehemently to being forced to buy messy-loss just so that I could boot 386bsd, though the concept of MS-DOS being used as a bootstrap loader for a *real* operating system does some amusment value. -- Brett Lymn