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From: sanner@track.physics.usfca.edu (David Sanner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
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Date: 12 Jan 93 22:10:36 GMT
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Chris G. Demetriou (cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: In article <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
: >The only drawback is you'd need a DOS partition or floppy to do it that
: >way, no biggie but possibly offensive to purists.
: Karl, you get the understatement of the year award...
: not only is that a *nasty* solution, but given the state
: of the DOS partition code (i.e. UGLY as all hell),
: it's only nastier...
: and i don't wanna have to put DOS on my disks... that's cruel
: and unusual punishment!!! 8-)
Neither do I but others use DOS and I would like to use 386bsd.
Since most DOS users just want to turn on the machine and boot
I use (would if I could get 386bsd to mount root ) shutdown -todos.
I would be nice if there was at least a shutdown -to386bsd command that
I could execute from DOS so I would not have to make my bsd partition
active via fdisk. Is there such a util?
--
David Sanner (sanner@usfca.edu)
U of S.F. Physics Research Laboratory
SF, CA 94117 (415) 666-2962