On 10/09/2015 10:51, Eric Auer wrote: > My personal opinion is that on 8086, you should rather use a floppy > distro like RUFFIDEA or BREZEL which has the "base" category already > pre-installed on one or a few floppies and you just XCOPY that to a > disk of your choice manually. Imagine how many floppies and spanned > zip files across multiple floppies a full install on 8086 would be.
I would tend to agree on that, but it's apparently not a common point of view. Not that long ago, I almost triggered an apocalypse on this very list by stating that 8086 machines probably do not need a package manager. I can only imagine that an installer will be perceived as even more fundamental. Without going into multi-floppies installations, it might be nice for the FreeDOS installer to be compatible with the lowest possible machine, if only to effectively present an intro screen, help to format the disk and copy the most basic stuff to C:\FREEDOS. Even on a full-blown Pentium PC there won't be more to do for the installer. Once the most basic system is up and running, then people can install any additional software via FDNPKG. Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
