Hi Tom, > On Dec 25, 2021, at 3:47 PM, tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > [..] > being a programmer, I had expected that ALL of these different methods > to install freedos would have resulted in 2 possible different > outcomes: normal mode, and advanced mode.
The "normal ways to install list" makes it seem more complicated than it is in reality. When it comes down to it, there are really just the two installers FDI and FDI-x86 that have normal and advanced modes. The rest are options in the installers for things like languages, keymap, etc. Being batch file based, the installers rely heavily on FreeCOM and other tools. There are numerous work arounds in it for older shell bugs that may no longer exist and even some newly detected ones. For example, there is a bug in FreeCOM that affected the installer since 1.2 that more or less went undetected for over 5 years. It would only crop up in some edge case installs. Once I discovered that issue, I reworked that part of the installer to avoid the bug. I also submitted bug reports on that and several other issues. ( If you want to read more about the bugs I found in FreeCOM recently, check out the bug reports at https://github.com/FDOS/freecom/issues <https://github.com/FDOS/freecom/issues> ) Everything else is just different media and ways to boot/launch the installers and variables in the installer. So, it’s not nearly as bad as the list made it seem. That being said, many of those ways do get tested originally and occasionally as changes are made. Mostly, the list is to point out that — like with all things... The further down the list you go increases the possibility of finding undetected or unforeseen issues. Testing the more obscure methods is always very helpful. :-) Jerome
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