Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > With regard to the development environment, Jim has posted somewhere that the > general development tools are OpenWatcom and NASM. I personally have found > OpenWatcom a tad bit overwhelming because of all that it

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

Nice.This will make it easier to modify the installer like a puzzle. Now,for my other point.Should we support USB?I noticed that the older installer doesn't support installing the OS to an external HD. On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > After

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

Hi Jim and Geraldo, of course I agree that exFAT should be accessed using the network redirector or CDEX interface: It would be too large to be in the kernel, should not be carried around with the kernel all the time and should be kept separately for the case that there are licensing issues.

[Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

After discussing “Advanced” mode a little with Jim, I will be adding additional functionality into the FreeDOS 1.2 installer batch file. Starting of with a complete restructure of how it structured in the file system. Instead of a single do it all installer batch file, it will now be broken

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

Well, before starting this major structural redesign of the FreeDOS Installer it was at about 50% complete. At present, most of functionality has been ported over. (Except, the backup generator) However, I figure it is now at approximately 30% complete. Please don’t confuse FDI’s progress

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

> On Sep 28, 2015, at 12:32 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU > wrote: > > Nice.This will make it easier to modify the installer like a puzzle. :) > > Now,for my other point.Should we support USB?I noticed that the older > installer doesn't support installing the OS to an

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Hi All, > > I was talking to Eric a few days ago about this exfat thread > and while we are worried with the license issues > I would like to volunteer myself to port current exfat from linux > kernel to freedos > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

Hi, So a cursory read of Wikipedia on this topic (ExFAT) and I stumbled across this Two experimental, unofficial solutions are available for DOS. The loadable USBEXFAT driver requires Panasonic's USB stack for DOS and only works with USB storage devices; the open-source EXFAT executable is an

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

Just a couple of comments. First of all, thanks for volunteering! Stepping up for something like this is not an easy thing to do, I know. The licensing thing will get managed somehow, I'm sure. If you've never written TSR's or device drivers before, this is definitely "jumping in the deep

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

Hi All, First of all, thank you all very very much for your support :) Indeed, i have to follow the whole thread as Eric said Also, all tips are very valuable and Eduardo even provided a real project to start :P Well, i prefer to be low profile/humble to not create much expectations also because