Hi, my point is not about whether it is feasible to extract the driver name from some user input. The point is that the user is confined in some artificial "you must tell me the driver name" dialog system. He cannot use PG, DIR, tab- completion, and so on, and he cannot decide to just boot another operating system to transfer the ISO or contents to harddisk either. The latter should allow the user to boot the installer again later, change to the directory with the ISO contents (or alternatively trigger mounting the ISO from a file in a WELL DOCUMENTED way) and type INSTALL there to continue with the installation.
> >>*integrate user-provided drivers in the freedos distribution, for > >> example cdrom drivers or USB drivers (not yet possible to implement). > > > > Definitely not worth the effort, I think. Complex, not failsafe... > > ... just let > > users exit to a PROMPT, tell them about PG load-those-drivers.txt which > > contains info about DEVLOAD, and let them run INSTALL BAT as soon as > > they either got the drivers running or got the CD contents pre-copied > > to some directory on harddisk in any way of their choice... > > Time ago I had a thought at this, a simple pattern recognition on > filename and then a list of lines to be added here and there. However I > agree with Eric that hard (for example, after/before EMM matters). ... ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
