Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, yes, TAR is an uncompressed archive format. TGZ is equivalent to a GZ (gzip) compressed TAR archive. And the sizes are similar: TAR = uncompressed ZIP normal ZIP = a bit bigger (because it cannot compress similar files better) than TGZ = ZIP with uncompresed ZIP inside. The problem is that DOS does not have true | pipes: It will internally use a tempfile. So you still need those 233k of temp space.
Exactly...
As the installer is meant to run from CD,unfortunately, this is not true, current FreeDOS distro is basically a floppy distro.... :-(((
Although CDs are used. But it is always a bit of problem not having a generic CD-ROM driver, that's why I added this to your list.
Unless INSTALL can create a RAMDISK, as the Win98 bootdisk does.it should avoid temp files in general. I agree that there should be some fine-grained "expert mode packet selection", too. Then you would have better control over how much space FreeDOS will take on harddisk.
I just remember that there was some talk about this... I can't remember how was the way to create a COMMAND variable having the RAM drive letter...
Aitor
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