On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:37 AM Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > > I managed to catch Jim Hall's FreeDOS talk at the FOSDEM online > conference last month -- mainly because it was directly before my own! > > He talked about how there was no LiveCD for 1.1 or 1.2 and hinted that > it was something that the team wanted to do for 1.3. > > I just wanted to ask what the problem was. I had noticed its absence, > because I still have to use a FreeFOS 1.0 live CD sometimes for BIOS > reflashing.
I'm glad you enjoyed my talk at FOSDEM! I didn't "hint" that LiveCD was something we wanted to do in FreeDOS 1.3. I said that was coming in FreeDOS 1.3. And the FreeDOS 1.3 RC3 already is a LiveCD. We have this note on the FreeDOS "Download" page: > FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 3 is now available! A big feature > in FreeDOS 1.3 will be booting into a LiveCD. You can test this > by downloading FD13-LiveCD.zip which contains the FD13LIVE.ISO > installer. Most users should try the LiveCD version. The main > goals for 1.3 are to provide overall improvements compared to > 1.2. Some of these include a LiveCD, a Floppy Diskette Edition, > some new packages, some updates packages and many improvements > to the installer to provide hardware compatibility and > multi-language support. Please help us to test the new Release > Candidate! Download FreeDOS 1.3 RC3 ยป You can help test it by downloading it and trying it out: https://www.freedos.org/download/ You can find more information about FreeDOS 1.3 in the wiki: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3 > I have built working Live USBs for Open DR-DOS 7.01-6, -7 and -8... > [..] > > I also have one for IBM PC DOS 7.1: > [..] > > ... but I cannot distribute it, as it is not FOSS although IBM offers > it for free download. Contact me offlist if you could help me to store > an off-site backup of this! We set up this mailing list to discuss FreeDOS, not to mirror DR-DOS and IBM's PC-DOS. Please do not share these links here. Thanks. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
