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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6711 ; Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:16:48 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!sunova!sunova!christia From: christia@latenite.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? In-Reply-To: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com's message of 13 Jan 93 23:39:03 GMT Message-ID: <CHRISTIA.93Jan14170159@latenite.ssc.gov> Sender: usenet@sunova.ssc.gov (News Admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: latenite.ssc.gov Organization: SSC Laboratory, Dallas, TX References: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> <id.QJNW._89@ferranti.com> <1993Jan13.050106.28871@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jan13.083904.14601@email.tuwien.ac.at> <bcQP02EX31Fn01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 23:01:59 GMT Lines: 35 >> I am somewhat surprised that nobody mentioned the term `licensing' >> here yet; >> but probably these days it is better not to talk about licensing and >> 386BSD in the same sentence :-) >> >> Anyway, if I need DOS to boot 386BSD, I will definitely need to pay >> for >> a DOS license - something which sounds to me quite contrary to one of >> the >> original goals of 386BSD. > >Actually, it would probably be an *alternative* boot system. Right...This is a *alternative* method of *easily* booting BSD when you HAVE to have dos on your primary (C:) disk drive, want BSD on a second drive (mine is SCSI) and cant spare the space or dont want to repartition the C: drive to add a BSD partition. Nobody is saying that you will have to use this method, but it seems that reality is that many of us have to use our PCs to run DOS and Windows application needed to do our jobs, and that BSD is just a neat toy to play with outerwise. -- ---------------------- Mike Christiansen Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory Controls Group 2550 Beckleymeade Ave. MS.4002 Dallas, TX. 75237 214-708-3415 christia@latenite.ssc.gov