Hi, On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > Hallo Herr Jim Hall, > > am 27. Februar 2018 um 16:13 schrieben Sie: > >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:05 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: >>> >>> > I did find where it's hanging in MetaDOS. (0.84-pre4, TURBOC, Feb. 22) >>> >>> whatever this METADOS is. >>> it would be cool if you posted a METADOS.VHD somewhere so people can >>> easier reproduce these reports. > >> MetaDOS is Rugxulo's unofficial FreeDOS floppy distro, available here: >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ > > how should I have known this?
C'mon, a kernel developer should know how to use Google. "freedos metados" brings up a mention from back in 2014 on the mailing list. And the second link is to the download location on iBiblio. (But I don't really count pre-2015 versions.) The fifth link shows an announcement on BTTR circa 2015, which you frequent, but nobody responded. IIRC, Eric Auer forwarded that annoucement to the mailing list here (although I wanted more testers first). But all that did was irritate Michael Brutman, who hasn't been seen around here since. (No, I don't blame myself, I guess he just has other things to do.) We used to have other unofficial distributions, but they were old and unmaintained. Thus, sometime in 2014, Jim decided to hide them (but privately accept requests, for a limited time). While I sympathize with his decision, it also left us somewhat orphaned. So I tried to make something simple for us. (Even though it's not really meant to be "only" floppy-based, it is still a floppy image for simplicity.) And every few months or so since then, I've updated it, hoping that it somehow fills a void or fulfills a need. Again, I don't mention it much because it's (intentionally) minimal, and few people seem to care. (It has tips on making .VHD inside.) But it's there if someone needs it, presumably better than nothing. In case you haven't noticed, it's somewhat tedious and difficult to maintain such things, hence why few bothered in the past. I even mentioned it recently (Jan. 22) to one dude on freedos-user trying to dual-boot Win98 and XP. He mentioned having MS-DOS floppy images, and I figured he might be interested in one more (FreeDOS-based). I don't seriously expect him to waste time on testing it, BUT obviously it's still useful for "something" (and can be redistributed). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
