Hi, > On Oct 1, 2024, at 11:06 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > * 'romos' and 'eltorito' were in 2409 but exist in 2410, but both are > on the package list from 1.3. I assume these were accidentally not > included in 2409?
Actually, I think ROMOS is probably to be excluded from the release media. The package contains disk image files which contain programs without sources. The eltorito package is simply a driver from SYSLINUX. It possibly gets used by the LiveCD at boot. A long while back, I was informed that this driver would only work when booting from CD. However, users have reported that it has worked for them when they booted the installed system. So… Since it is a low priority driver during the CD initialization, I figured it doesn’t hurt to just include it. > > * 'kittenc' and 'fdisrc' were in 2409 but are not in 2410. I assume > these were accidentally missed while moving packages? kittenc got missed. I just added it to the list. fdisrc is a little odd. I left it out. The installer is a batch program and therefore it is its own source. However, the RBE performs a large amount of processing on the raw FDI source files when creating the install media. The FDISRC package is the raw version of the installer’s files. Like the Kernel and FreeCOM, it is handled very differently than every other package in the release. At present, the RBE will want to place those sources in the UTIL group. While we do not need to include those files, it is nice to provide them as well. I will just need to find some spare time to tweak the RBE so it will put them in the DEVEL group. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
