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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving from Linux ---> FreeBSD
Date: 24 May 1995 08:10:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3pumfv$7ph@nntp5.u.washington.edu>,
Tim Smith <tzs@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Suggestion: it would be real nice if FreeBSD had something like Linux's
>LOADLIN.  For those who haven't seen it,  LOADLIN is a DOS program that
>knows how to turn off your extended memory manager and load a Linux kernel.

We do.  It's called "DOSBOOT", and you'll be seeing it in action soon
on the next CDROM!

					Jordan