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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA391 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:05:58 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!camcus!pc123 From: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? In-Reply-To: hasty@netcom.com's message of 30 Jan 93 23:58:14 GMT Message-ID: <PC123.93Jan31193045@apus.cus.cam.ac.uk> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Nntp-Posting-Host: apus.cus.cam.ac.uk Organization: U of Cambridge, England References: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> <BLYMN.93Jan23152157@siren.awadi.com.au> <1993Jan30.235814.11944@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 19:30:49 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1993Jan30.235814.11944@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: Have you ever heard of an option? [ to boot 386BSD from DOS ] Let's make this VERY clear: There are many hardware manufacturers who love to keep their hardware/software interfaces secret [ ... ] So for the folks who have common sense, lets just do it. [ add the option ] Go and write it then. But remember, 386BSD is supposed to be a free operating system. If it depends on a bootstrap loader that costs money, then it will not be. And it will depend on it if you can't otherwise run your hardware properly. -- ---------------------------------------------+ "A tight hat can be stretched. Pete Chown, pc123@phx.cam.ac.uk (Internet) | First damp the head with steam pc123@uk.ac.cam.phx (Janet :-) -+ from a boiling kettle."