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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7133 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:48:10 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!pos!posgate!sleeper!raz From: raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? Message-ID: <C0zt9t.1JA@sleeper.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 10:03:28 GMT References: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> <1993Jan13.102710.26478@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> <1993Jan13.135317.20823@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Organization: Desolation Road Railfan BBS Lines: 23 ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins) writes: >In <1993Jan13.102710.26478@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> ade@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Adrian Collins) 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. >>And extra RAM to have DOS and the resident part of the command-line >>interpreter resident in memory. >I was clearing still suffering from Post Festive Season Stress Disorder >when I made that last comment. It should have been obvious to me that >once loaded BSD can trample over DOS if it so wishes. After all Novell >(SPIT) has been doing it for years. Something that fascinates me about Netware 3 is that is appears to keep the DOS context somewhere (either in RAM or perhaps an image on disk) so that after you have 'down'ed the server, you type 'exit' and get your DOS prompt back! (It has 2 interesting spinoffs, Netware doesn't need its own floppy filesystem format and thus upgrades can be installed from the DOS prompt 'copy a:\server.exe c:\netware'. It works. I've done it.))