To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/30/1998 19:30:51
Mason Loring Bliss writes:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 06:19:34PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> > I'm starting to think we might want to make a FreeDOS boot floppy
> > available for some such tasks.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to use a NetBSD boot floppy with some custom
> tools for this?
NetBSD does not (conveniently) have access to certain information that
the non-reentrant 16 bit BIOS has access to.
Perry