Hi, On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bernd Blaauw <[email protected]> wrote: > Op 5-8-2011 12:02, [email protected] schreef: > >> please remeber to create a distro with installer on floppy >> disk (1 or more 1,44 mb disk)
I'm not sure FreeDOS 1.1 will ever have an official floppy install, at least nothing more than "bootup". It's very low priority, if at all, for them. (Understandably, some more important things must come first.) > * Is this intended for a networked computer or stand-alone machine? > * Is this for machines without any optical drive at all? Or machines > that have CD/DVD but don't support booting from CD by themselves? Presumably all of the above. And as previously mentioned elsewhere, if they can get the .ISO to their hard drive somehow, they can mount it and install from there. > I guess 1.44MB will do as file format? File format? Oh, you mean like "create your own bootable floppy from .IMG file"? Quite easy to do. Even various tools exist which can unpack files from those images. But again, floppies are (commercially) dead, not to mention unpopular. Believe me, I'm not knocking them or downplaying their usefulness (or your request!), but keep in mind that "most" people would suggest you just to install from CD. The big question is: what should it contain? Obviously "BASE" (which has a lot of stuff, I'm not sure how many floppies it'll take these days, presumably three 1.44 MB disks, minimum, without heavy compression), but I'm not sure what else would feel natural, e.g. most of "UTIL", perhaps? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
