Hi Rugxulo, >> That would be a good compromise - basically BASE is "a similar set >> of tools as you would get with plain MS DOS", which only takes a >> few megabytes in pre-unzipped "live" style. The rest, which easily >> takes more than 100 MB even in zipped, CAN still "go live" together >> with a little installer trick to use a ramdisk as install target to >> use FreeDOS on modern computers. A ramdisk of 200 or 500 MB easily >> fits most of the installable packages AND works on most newer PCs. > > However, some rare setups (and tools) choke on too much RAM (as > opposed to not enough). This may not be flawless.
Of course we should pick XMS drivers and ramdisks which do not have that issue. Otherwise, they will have the issue even without ramdisk. >> So I would be happy if a ramdisk can be loaded before the installer >> and can be used by it, of course as user selectable optional step :-) > > FYI, for simplicity, you may like something like Jack's RDISK, but as > mentioned before, it lacks a few features (that I guess he considered > rarely used). If unloading is important or something like XMSv2 > compatibility, you'll have to (also) have something else available. RDISK sounds like a good plan. Together with a good XMS 3 driver, that should give a smoothly working large ramdisk. Unloading is not needed. Cheers, Eric >> PS: Dropping the image mount sub-topic again, pending Rugxulo's reply. > > I'm not sure exactly what you want here. I don't know of any (obvious) The question (in another thread) was if there was a disk image backed mountable drive driver which supports writing back changes to disk. I only know that the SHSUCD suite has a disk image backed read-only ISO (CD/DVD) image mount driver. The idea in the other thread was to add encryption between mounted drive and disk image, allowing several DOS users to share one computer but not see each other's data, decrypting only the "home" disk of the current user each time. Of course this is assuming that they are polite enough to not delete each other's disk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
