Subject: Re: port-i386/4651: Man page describing booting NetBSD from Windows 95
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/08/1997 10:24:52
tsarna@endicor.com wrote:
> >Description:
> 	Setting up Windows 95 to be able to boot NetBSD is more
> 	difficult than it looks, and fraught with many subtle,
> 	important points. Likewise for setting up Windows to
> 	automatically reboot to NetBSD at a certain time.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	Waste a lot of time trying to get it right.
> >Fix:
> 	Write a man page describing the process so others won't have to
> 	figure it out for themselves.

> 	The patch to dosboot.8 also cleans up some extra blank lines
> 	and makes a few other minor cleanups.

> 	The w95boot.8 man page does need fixing -- someone should look
> 	at the .Pa directive that needs 17 (count 'em, 17!) backslashes
> 	to get backslash into the output. There _has_ to be a better
> 	way, but I'm not a mandoc guru...

While there add some instructions on how to boot NetBSD from the WinNT
bootloader.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>