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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,neosoft.users.freebsd
Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe -- kernel must be on DOS partition?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:31:51 -0800
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Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> 
> After reading some threads here recently about using fbsdboot to help
> with Plug-and-Play hardware, I'm very anxious to try it (hoping I might
> finally get my sound card to work this way).  Typing fbsdboot -? under
> DOS, I get the impression that the kernel must be located on a DOS
> partition.  Is this correct?  Or is there a way to tell fbsdboot to

It must be readable from DOS since fbsdboot.exe is a DOS program. :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard