On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:35 AM tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote:
> > > Over a month ago, I opened an issue on the FreeDOS project on > > GitLab about the Open Watcom v2 installer being extremely slow in > > FreeDOS. It takes an hour or more on FreeDOS, while the same > > installation completes on MS-DOS 7.1 within just a few minutes. > > either you report your config.sys and autoexec.bat for both tests > or your report is basically useless. > > write caching smartdrv (which freedos is known not to have) makes a > HUGE difference for installers, so you are comparing apples to oranges. > > of course running both without autoexec/config.sys would place them on > an equal playing field. OK, that's a fair point. When I have time again, I'll try to do more of an apples-and-apples comparison between the two, and then I'll share my findings here. An installation time of an hour still seems excessively slow though, even when no disk cache is loaded. What added value does that issue reporting project on GitLab have over this mailing list, by the way? Is it actively used, or is it expected to in the future? Thanks.
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