Hi Usul, >> I agree, the FreeDOS installer is currently a bit annoying, you must >> click and wait a dozens of time. Would be better first to choose all >> packets or to click just go ahead and install everything...
I would prefer "everything which can install in a fast and safe way" as one of the predefined selections ;-). In other words, no drivers which need download, no network or usb stuff which can hang, no 3rd party software such as F-Prot. Just stuff from the CD-ROM, so I can come back 5 minutes later and have a working base system. Network and other stuff can be done later but at least I have a nice DOS. > Part that I hated most was that I had to keep clicking. Clicking per category and the heavy flicker were annoying yes. Although I must say that most people will be happy with only the BASE category already, so they can download a small ISO... They can still download other stuff later, manually or via the FDUPDATE or other services :-). > I used to organize all the "system" files in a system directory. and > the apps in an app directory under C: instead of under the system > directory. You can move around your files after installing, of course :-). It just makes the installation and package management a lot easier and faster to unzip everything into c:\fdos... As Blair already said, if you move around stuff, it could confuse the installer, fdpkg or fdupdate... On the other hand, you can always download zips manually and ignore fdpgk and co anyway. You will miss some comfort but if you are used to moving your files into custom directories, I am sure you prefer manually sorting your files according to your taste anyway :-). > Lastly the installer insisted on trying to setup networking even when > I have no network card in this laptop. Lots of errors and extra enter > keys. I have seen code out there that does hardware detection in dos. Yeah... Our installer does use PCI bus scanning, too, but the DHCP autoconfiguration still has some risk to fail... Or the drivers might crash, etc. In short: I recommend NOT to use any network during INITIAL install. Avoid anything that can hang or crash. Please DOS users with a quick basic installation :-). > Saying that the installer worked and everything got onto my system. > So I am not bad mouthing the work that was done. :) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
