Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:24 PM stecdose wrote: > > I have tested untardos.exe, it is great. > But running it the first time on real hardware untardos locked the > system with a "invalid opcode" error. Are you using JEMMEX, perhaps? (X=TEST I=TEST) Otherwise, I'd like to know what

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:24 PM stecdose wrote: > > I have tested untardos.exe, it is great. No problems with recent > linux-stock-tar-and-gzip files created with "tar cvfz file.tgz folder". > This makes automating a build process easy. > But running it the first time on real hardware

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:28 AM stecdose wrote: > > It takes a few days for me, but I haven't lost interest if it looked > like ;) Okay, cool. > I will prepare a network disk, but this does not fit on the fdbase-floppy at > all :( > I really like this idea :) I think I forgot to mention

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread stecdose
There's also others, of course, but I can't think of any obviously superior tool, except maybe UNTAR (which also supports .gz): * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/tar/ So UNTARDOS.EXE is 22 kb, but you can presumably UPX that to half that. Granted, that's

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-10-02 Thread stecdose
It takes a few days for me, but I haven't lost interest if it looked like ;) VC I have now replaced vc with doszip commander. Also very small and powerful. I have prepared a few disks: * 1 disk   base (boots, installs base) * 1 disk   dev (c, asm, basic) * 2 disks util (partition

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-09-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:21 AM stecdose wrote: > > I don't know which is the best place for this message. As it is about > development I stick to freedos-devel. Is it ok to also send to > freedos-user, because in the end it will affect users when used. And > maybe users have suggestions for

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: [almost to announce] FD Floppy Distribution + Installer

2018-09-19 Thread stecdose
Hi there, First of all, I am new to this list, though I am reading it for a long time now. I really like spending hours on reading topics... I don't know which is the best place for this message. As it is about development I stick to freedos-devel. Is it ok to also send to freedos-user, because