Changing the highlighting to make clear what iw2evk said and what Jim said... ;-) Some own comments: We can/did use spfdisk and xfdisk, and I agree that a separate "personal use" ISO could be made which has some packages already included which would otherwise have to be downloaded during install: Using network during install made the 1.0 installer hang-prone...
Eric On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, iw2evk wrote: > > 2. An updated Install program. > Pay attention.. > The Fdisk program supplied with freedos it's quite unstable. > Oparation like partitioning a hdd for fat32 it's a bit hard.. > Check the functionality of fdisk before create an installer. > > 3. An optional floppy-only "Base" install. > > This could be a 1.44MB emergency boot floppy image (like BALDER, or > > ODIN before it) with just the essentials from the "Base" set. Or maybe > > it's a multi-floppy (3 disks?) install of everything from "Base". What > > would be most useful here? > I think a bootable 1,44 diskette it's a good choice (I.e. Balder disk). > A separate install kit with step by step gui can be usefull for the > "windows prone" new users .. > > For FreeDOS 1.1, I think that's it. No major changes. Let's worry > > about other, larger changes in later releases - like an eventual > > FreeDOS 2.0. > i suggest contact Georg Potthast or including in fdos his DOSUSB drivers > (freeware for personal user) to create a NON COMMERCIAL dos usb support > for freedos http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
