Hi, On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Sébastien FAVIER <[email protected]> wrote: > > @Ulrich: > > I use this for install automaticly networks drivers for DOS (Dr-dos,MS-DOS, > FreeDos..) > http://www.netbootdisk.com/about.htm
" Computer Requirements * 16MB RAM [...probably for UHarc...] * A supported network card/chipset [...sounds difficult...] * An existing bootable disk made from Windows XP or PC-DOS 7 [...never heard of FreeDOS ??...] " "2014 Note: I first started creating the NetBootDisk back in 2001 - in the height of re-imaging many machines from DOS/Windows 98 to Windows XP. Today I use more modern tools via PXE Booting - not to mention the machines don't even have floppies any more! :)" "UPDATE 2014 - The content below was originally published back in the early Windows XP days before Windows PE was around. Personally I wouldn't even bother using NetBootDisk for reading NTFS now, but I'll still include these instructions anyway since I've already documented it..." > I have extracted UHA files for get content and batch source files and > modify this I did download his (circa 2010) NETBOOT65.ZIP , which is apparently supposed to let you roll your own image (for obvious reasons). Most of the stuff is in FILES.UHA (presumably all the actual network packet drivers). It's been years since I've tried UHarc. Back in the day, it was quite nice (but a very slow memory hog). I'm not really much into trying various obscure compressors anymore, though I'd still lean more towards 7zdecode or maybe a paq8 variant or zpaq or whatnot. And obviously I'd (mostly) ignore MS-DOS/PC-DOS entirely in lieu of free-r tools (if possible), e.g. FreeDOS. It's commendable that someone has done this, but it's not what I'd call ideal. In other words, although tedious, it could use some obvious improvements, but I fear that testing on actual hardware would be more trouble than it's worth. And if you're just going to use an emulator anyways, it's probably not worth much effort (but see my recent MetaDOS .img). N.B. "Modern" OSes don't really cater to "old" machines, so it's of little use to recommend them (via liveUSB or liveCD) if the machine won't actually run it. Maybe without X11, but that's another complicated ball of wax. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
