"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
> 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.

BTW, this isn't the real reason I suggest having this
available. Standalone utilities and various BIOS call hooks could
allow us to do that within NetBSD. It is more that there are various
tools (like DOS partition compressors, osbs, etc.) that seem to run
only under DOS.

Perry