Hi Bernd, >> please remeber to create a distro with installer on floppy >> disk (1 or more 1,44 mb disk) > > * 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? > > I guess 1.44MB will do as file format?
If you ask me - do not try to squeeze all in ONE floppy (distro). There could be one floppy with mixed magic for people with big disk but without CD/DVD boot, for example "mount ISO from user specified location" or "use special CD/DVD boot loader" or "load USB storage drivers first" or "load network drivers and curl/wget the ISO", or any combination of those as long as it is easy and fits ;-) Another thing is a real floppy distro. That one could be Rugxulo's ruffidea, with many DOS apps pre-installed on very few disks, with the "single 2.88 MB image" special variant for putting on CD/DVD ISOs with multiple OSes... But again, the main use for a real floppy distro should be, imho, being a real floppy FreeDOS. Without magic or installers for putting 100 MB of more DOS on harddisks. Just my cents :-) Eric PS: ISO date/time seems to be popular, I see in another thread (2011-08-02 18:09:06 etc.) but nobody yet said in which COUNTRY this is the default anyway. USA, maybe? ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
