Hi everybody, update on the 2 Nov mail by Matthew: > The release candidate announcement encouraged people to try FreeDOS out > and report any problems, so here I am to say that I successfully booted > and installed 1.2-RC1 in a generation-1 Hyper-V 2012 R2 virtual machine > using the ISO image. I pretty much took the defaults for everything > except RAM, which I set to 32 MB (the minimum allowed by Hyper-V), and > storage, which I set to 40 GB. The installation took a long > time---several hours, although I didn't measure it carefully.
This matches some observation by Maarten during a FreeDOS install: The installation spends a LONG time while displaying the text "gathering information". Question about the installer: What does that step do and are there ways to optimize it? I could imagine that it tries to compare existing file versions to the to-be-installed versions. This could be made faster by making a directory listing of the old DOS installation once, then keeping it in RAM (or in a file) while checking which packages are up to date and which are not. Educated guesses. Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
