>From: "John W. DeBoskey" <j...@unx.sas.com> >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:54:36 -0500 (EST)
> If you really want to make things easier for the beginner, why >not provide a DOS boot program. Then you wouldn't even have to >worry about boot floppies. Tell new folks to copy the boot program >to the DOS partition and run it from DOS. Case closed. No boot >floppy required. I can imagine half a dozen ways to make this work. Although I'll cheerfully admit that I'm probably in the minority in this respect, such an approach would do me not one whit of good, since, given a desired objective, I have no idea how to make MS-DOS accomplish it. (I'm coming at FreeBSD with no background in PCs at all, about 12+ years working with UNIX, about 12 years as an IBM mainframe (MVS) systems programmer, and some years before that of various other types of systems. In my (somewhat limited) experience, when I've tried to use MS-DOS for anything, more than half the time either the application or the machine would hang or crash; thus, I'd be hard-pressed to advocate reliance upon that mechanism for anything of perceived importance.) Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator d...@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
