Tom,
I am not sure if understand the trial system of FDT250x:
The kernel will be online for one month till the next version e.g. FDT2507. So if someone reports a bigger problem with the kernel it will disappear within one month.
I know bugs that are 20 and more years old.
As nobody worries about the bug report list, this is the fastest way to find problems.
And it is very easy to test this FDT on a 500 GB real HD with a 2 TB HD in a virtual machine. It is installed within 10 minutes and, if necessary, deleted in two minutes.
So nobody can say that this "a lot of work" to test. It needs less time than writing a mail.
I am aware than virtual machines do not cover everything, but I would say more than 80%. In doubt it is always good to test with two different vms and a real machine.
Till now I saw a lot of benefits of the new kernel (tested today):
here some of them:
- support for creating real 2 TB images (fdisk already did it, but now format also supports it),
- support for creating a small FAT-16 HD behind a big FAT32 one (e.g. a third HD) - format gave an error till now, now I tested 2 x 2 TB and two smaller HDs.
- your max 4 GB support for the copy command now works,
- fdisk works on a 4 TB HD, but of course, supports max. 2 TB,
- if exist Z:\NUL echo drive Z exists now works again, etc.
So why not giving it a trial for one month? New iso files make it easier to create a new machine than adding single kernels or other files via diskette / vbados or imdisk.
Of course there is nothing to say against an update of this kernel if something goes wrong or is still missing.
Willi
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
From: "tom ehlert via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Kernel package question
From: "tom ehlert via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Kernel package question
Hallo Herr Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel,
am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025 um 11:52 schrieben Sie:
>> Am 27.05.2025 um 09:02 schrieb tom ehlert via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
>>
>> A new kernel.sys can be - and should be - tested independently of all the surrounding stuff,
>> so you have potential issues automatically isolated to the kernel, and nothing else.
> It is not that the new kernel is completely untested. For instance, the links to recent kernel binaries were provided on this list. Everyone with interest had the opportunity to test it. Sadly, not many did so. But a few, like Willi, invested a significant time testing it. So including it in the test release is the next logical step to widen the group of testers, which nevertheless I'm afraid won't be many...
I don't have any secret information.
I'm just worried that there might be a reason PerditionC hasn't released *any* kernels over the last few years, while there has been so much added/fixed.
And I have asked *often*. Nothing. I'm not sure taking the kernel "as is" from GitHub anyway is such a great idea.
Kernel 2037 2.0?
Tom
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am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025 um 11:52 schrieben Sie:
>> Am 27.05.2025 um 09:02 schrieb tom ehlert via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
>>
>> A new kernel.sys can be - and should be - tested independently of all the surrounding stuff,
>> so you have potential issues automatically isolated to the kernel, and nothing else.
> It is not that the new kernel is completely untested. For instance, the links to recent kernel binaries were provided on this list. Everyone with interest had the opportunity to test it. Sadly, not many did so. But a few, like Willi, invested a significant time testing it. So including it in the test release is the next logical step to widen the group of testers, which nevertheless I'm afraid won't be many...
I don't have any secret information.
I'm just worried that there might be a reason PerditionC hasn't released *any* kernels over the last few years, while there has been so much added/fixed.
And I have asked *often*. Nothing. I'm not sure taking the kernel "as is" from GitHub anyway is such a great idea.
Kernel 2037 2.0?
Tom
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