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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
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Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:21:57
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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.

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Brett Lymn