On 10/21/2015 12:45 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 21/10/2015 02:32, Mercury Thirteen wrote: >> Since the link Mateusz provided is complete and current, all one would >> have to do is download all the package ZIPs and mesh them to the >> installer, correct? > That's correct. No need even to download each package separately, just > grab the all_cd.iso image. Everything is there, including a boot > diskette I created that only waits for an installer to be added. Awesome. :)
> That's what I tried to suggest a few times during past months when you > started with the intentions of repackaging everything, but apparently I > wasn't clear enough about this. Your level of clarity is beside the point. I was bent on including every possible update to every possible package - not to mention I am to this day still unfamiliar with FDNPKG - so I didn't pay enough attention. Oh, how shortened time will change your perspective, eh? :) > As Eric said in parallel - this won't solve in any ultimate way the 8086 > "problem", since most 8086 are unlikely to have a CD. But again, my > (very personal) opinion is that doing a full blown > packager/installer/distro for such machines is overkill. Just boot from > a floppy, sys the disk, copy files and that's it. That's actually the > reason I created the svarog86 "distribution" a few months ago, so I > could enjoy FreeDOS on my own 8086 (which I reverted back to IBM DOS 3.3 > later because FreeDOS ended up being too much of a memory hog to be > useful on such machine, but that's another story). > > http://svarog86.sourceforge.net/ > > Mateusz Is there a way - and I'm saying this from the point of not having yet looked at all your link contains - that we can differentiate between the 16-bit packages and the ones which require a 32-bit CPU? That way a simple 16-bit clean batch file installer could "know" instantly what it can safely install without us having to go through and check each package. Alternatively, we could simply have such an installer just copy everything from Base (everything in Base works with 16-bit chips, yeah?) and be done with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
