Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 8 23:39:42 UTC 2015
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting
>
Wow, I like your problem. It's really weird, and I like weird problems. :)
Since you are looking at automating a complicated process,
here is a crazy idea which you might want to consider
(1) Get two machines, interconnect them via a small Ethernet switch.
(2) Designate one machine as a PXE server, and the other as your test
machine
(3) Set up a FreeBSD PXE boot environment wit NFS root, as per:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-diskless.html#network-pxe-nfs
(4) Figure out how to PXE boot a Windows95 environment. There are
articles out there for PXE booting FreeDOS which might be a place to start:
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~dbaird/work/2013/11/05/pxe-boot-freedos-hard-disk-image/
On the DHCP server, you can modify dhcpd.conf to change which OS will boot
via PXE boot.
If you can:
-> automate the reboot of your test server
-> automate the modification of dhcpd.conf on your PXE server via some
process
then you might be able to get it to work. :)
--
Craig
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