Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-26 Thread Rugxulo
Gruess Gott, On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 1:20 PM Tom Ehlert wrote: > > > Developers are very sloppy and include lots of things that they don't > > need. They also split up things into too many files. Too many > > dependencies. I'm just saying, it's overwhelming, even for them. I'm aware that this

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-26 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Developers are very sloppy and include lots of things that they don't > need. They also split up things into too many files. Too many > dependencies. I'm just saying, it's overwhelming, even for them. for a clueless moron, you are making fairly big claims. do you have ANYTHING to show to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 9:15 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > On Mar 9, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > And how big would the 3 largest packages in that ramdisk be? Which 3 > > packages? > > I don’t know off-hand. But, things like FPC & DJGPP are enormous. > However, both of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:49 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > On Mar 8, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > > As DOS barely supports any overlay stuff, another question would be > > which FreeDOS packages work directly from read-only media. > > My guess is: MOST will! > > I agree that most

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 9, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Thanks for the package list pointers! :-) Your welcome. > >> All release specific settings are in that >> https://github.com/shidel/FDI/tree/master/SETTINGS > >> Boot floppies are PKG_FDI.LST with files and directories >> in CLEANUP.LST

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Thanks for the package list pointers! :-) > All release specific settings are in that > https://github.com/shidel/FDI/tree/master/SETTINGS > Boot floppies are PKG_FDI.LST with files and directories > in CLEANUP.LST removed. > PKG_BASE is what is installed with BASE Base: The classic mix of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> LiveCD1 size is flexible... > > Looking at your links (PS: typo "intalled") the current :-) I’ll have to fix that. > list seems to be, in that order: > > BASE, FDI,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, > LiveCD1 size is flexible... Looking at your links (PS: typo "intalled") the current list seems to be, in that order: BASE, FDI, grep/head/du/sleep/tee/touch/which/less/trch/md5sum, crc32, slowdown, doslfn, part, xfdisk, xdel, xkeyb, raread, rawrite, edict, fdtui, fdnet, wget,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > questions about the dynamic size semi-live CD, which are > the minimum amounts of memory for which package sets? > > You say with 24 MB you get a system, then at some point > you get BASE, much later FULL or even

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, questions about the dynamic size semi-live CD, which are the minimum amounts of memory for which package sets? You say with 24 MB you get a system, then at some point you get BASE, much later FULL or even EXTRA? So I would like to know the RAM size thresholds for those :-) [LiveCD1

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > On Mar 9, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, thanks for the insights :-) Your welcome. > > So what is the combined size of all "programs which have settings > or high scores" which the user would like to be updated? Remember > that high scores in ramdisk are lost

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, thanks for the insights :-) So what is the combined size of all "programs which have settings or high scores" which the user would like to be updated? Remember that high scores in ramdisk are lost at reboot anyway and it is possible that games just continue without error when they

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 8, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Louis, > >> Do you mean something like the SHSU* Image/ISO to RAMDrive utils [0][1][2] >> when you said, " If we had a driver that could directly use CD/DVD media >> like a hard drive and cache changes to RAM, then things could be

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC1 - live CD versus RAM requirements

2019-03-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Louis, > Do you mean something like the SHSU* Image/ISO to RAMDrive utils [0][1][2] > when you said, " If we had a driver that could directly use CD/DVD media > like a hard drive and cache changes to RAM, then things could be different > and possibly even better"? The problem is the CACHE