Hi, Just a few random comments (as I didn't test it), On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bbla...@home.nl> wrote: > Op 27-12-2011 17:03, Michael B. Brutman schreef: > > The CD can be considered complex yes. LiveCD environment disables access > to all physical drives, while Install keeps drives visible. > >> Booting the ISO: The default timeout of 5 seconds before booting the >> Live Environment mode is way too short. A new user would want to read >> the screen to see the options; right now it will start booting to the >> live environment and confuse them. > > OK, will change.
Doesn't pressing a key (e.g. arrowkey) pause the timer? It might be best to set them to something like 50 secs. by default (just in case). That's not really that long to wait, IMHO. Anything else almost zooms by too fast if you're not used to it. > How was FDISK uneventfull? I know v1.31 has some MBR-detection issues > (blank disk in VMware for example) so using the older 1.21 one. There's > an issue if FDISK can't find any disks, then it won't reboot either. > Using FDAPM instead (there's a couple of hidden options basicly, like > 'r' or 'm' or 's'). I'll see what I can change. Does it not also include XFDISK and/or SPFdisk? (And BTW, it's probably bad timing now, but for next release, one of us [me??] should email Brian Reifsnyder again, esp. if bugs are found.) > I'm not sure how to implement a countdown, it's not an option in CHOICE > program (and neither is suppressing the selected input char apparently, > thus explaining the 'a' (auto-mode) and '1' displayed). Not sure what you want here, but it can't be hard to do (famous last words). >> It tells me that it is going to create a FAT32 filesystem. I formatted >> the drive to be FAT16. I suspect this is an error in the message text, >> and that it really didn't check the partition type. > > I'll have to check this, it's indeed not checking. I'd need tons of > specific utilities to catch all of this. Perhaps this? http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/whichfat.zip >> The status updates at the end "Menu step 1 through 6" update in a >> confusing way ... how about just one line of output each time a step >> completes? It keeps clearing the screen which makes it hard to see what >> it is doing. > > I can't silence all output, thus no: > step 1 completed > step 2 completed > .. > final step completed > > but instead clearing the screen. Can't you do "CTTY NUL" and then "CTTY CON" when finished? It's been a while since I tried that, but it should work, right?? Or am I wrong / naive?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
