Hi, No solutions here, only some ranting :)
- the tricky part might be to make it possible to install FreeDOS on a system where there is already something (ie. multiboot), and make it actually bootable, without breaking the other stuff. Personally I wouldn't object if FreeDOS would just trash whatever there is already, and install itself giving a proper warning, but from what I hear most non-hardcore FreeDOS users install it in a multiboot environment with Windows on some other partition... - about RAMDisk: it might come handy indeed, but remember that FreeDOS should still be able to install on old machines, ie. from a floppy, on a 8086 CPU, with no XMS, and only 256K of conventional memory or so. This highly limits the amount of fancy stuff one can do. - once installed, it would be *really* nice if the system could use FDNPKG to install additional packages right away (if hardware allows it of course, this wouldn't matter on pre-386 anyway since FDNPKG is 32bit anyway). Meaning that whatever the installer installs, should be installed in the 'standard' way so FDNPKG can see it later (implies correctly formatted LSM files in %DOSDIR%\APPINFO and auto-generated %PACKAGE%.LST files in %DOSDIR%\PACKAGES\). Mateusz On 10/09/2015 00:33, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > A minor snag in development is driving me nuts. > > First remember: > > Jim wants a Batch File Based Installer. > > What is required: > > The batch needs to be able to pipe data from STDOUT to STDIN for things > like automated drive C formatting and > other things. > > This is the potential issue: > > If no writeable file system is present, DOS throws many errors and > cannot redirect the data from > one program to another. > > Potential Solution: > > Create a ram disk for the temporary files needed to redirect I/O. > > This is the problem: > > Unless I’m using it wrong RDISK doesn’t work with any reliability. > I got it to work once in my FDI building Virtual Machine. > I never got the Floppy boot disk version to work. > > I need a working ram disk, or to get command shell just to do it in > memory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
