Hey, on a topic (and when I won't accidently send the message because of evil control key on keyboard),
I understand you have the difficulty of trying to avoid bandwidth overload. Here's what I suggest. There exists a program like this for macintosh, that takes as an input two different versions of any file, and produces an executable that can take the earlier version and convert it to the latter version, by altering the appropriate bytes and adding appropriate bytes etcetc. Now, obviously, if it's just the binary equivalent of a changelog, this should prove to be smaller than the full distribution, as the people can just use their old version and update. Now, side by side with the full this should prove to be very tantalizing to the slow connection users, those who pay by the megabyte, and those who just want to be kind to your hosting. There should be a similar program for Windows. Would you like me to seek it out? Does this sound like a good idea? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernd Blaauw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ArcadeOS / there seems to be a porblem (installation) > Jay Maus schreef: > > Okay, so I've started the install, and everything's going sorta okay, > > except.. well, it's bizarre. > > Jay, > > are you messing with the FreeDOS cdrom and then trying to install ArcadeOS > on it? > > or installing FreeDOS from cdrom? > > next week(next Sunday actually) I'm releasing the next FreeDOS distribution, > which has an improved installation procedure. > I have no idea, for example, why the graphical installer crashes. > (CWSDPMI + INSTALL.EXE -> General Protection Fault). > > I'm not uploading an interim version, as that would cause big problems on the > hosting site (many people read these mailinglists, and they would all download > the 10MB ISO file). > > I hope you have a bit of patience and will try next week again. > If not, try the ODIN distribution (single diskette all with binaries). > It's mentioned on the freedos.org mainpage. > Final solution would be to mail me in private, and then I'll upload most recent > version so you (and only you) can download it. > > a workaround for getting FreeDOS installed is selecting MONO as screen. > the graphical installer cannot handle MONOCHROME so it jumps to the > textmode installer. > > Bernd > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
