Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Mateusz Viste
The "BASE" is nothing else than a set of packages, they are not different from any other packages (besides the fact that they have been elected as being part of "BASE"). These packages can be removed, installed and updated at will. That's the whole point of having packages. For instance,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Louis Santillan
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > However, that being said. The BASE is the BASE and should not be removed > by a package manager. It should always be there. :) Except when you want or need to update BASE (like in upgrading from FD 1.1 to 1.2

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 11/09/2015 16:39, Jim Hall wrote: >> (...) then use FDNPKG or >> UNZIP afterwards to install the other packages that you want. > > To avoid confusion, I will add that using UNZIP is not a one-to-one > alternative to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > The "BASE" is nothing else than a set of packages, they are not > different from any other packages (besides the fact that they have been > elected as being part of "BASE"). These packages can be removed, > installed

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
Will we implement an "advanced" setup?For example,after the welcome screen,we could give the user two options: 1.Express install 2.Advanced setup The first would be the user friendly setup,and the second would allow the user to manually choose packages,and even access the command line (I think it

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Antony Gordon
Eric, I just get ...? LOL I guess you're not liking me again. (Just kidding). On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:31 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Jayden (and Mateusz and Jim and...) :-) > > > Will we implement an "advanced" setup? [...] > > > The first would be the user friendly

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Eric Auer wrote: > Of course it is good to be able to reach a prompt, > but I would not put effort in extra magic. To let > the user manually select packages, the user could > do a BASE install and afterwards simply run FDNPKG > to install more of the packages which are

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jayden (and Mateusz and Jim and...) :-) > Will we implement an "advanced" setup? [...] > The first would be the user friendly setup,and the second would allow the > user to manually choose packages,and even access the command line (I think > it has the prompt of X:\).This way,if the user

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Jim Hall
>> Will we implement an "advanced" setup? [...] > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Of course it is good to be able to reach a prompt, > but I would not put effort in extra magic. To let > the user manually select packages, the user could > do a BASE

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Project

2015-09-11 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 11/09/2015 16:39, Jim Hall wrote: > (...) then use FDNPKG or > UNZIP afterwards to install the other packages that you want. To avoid confusion, I will add that using UNZIP is not a one-to-one alternative to FDNPKG. I strongly discourage using UNZIP to install packages - such packages won't