Uploaded to freedos.sharedaemon.org are new torrents and also xdelta files that you can use to patch your old ISOs and update them without downloading the whole files again. Jim Hall should also have them uploaded to ibiblio soon.
This release brings several advancements over the last release such as PCI autodetection for a number of NICs including IBM Token Ring NICs, SureCOM E-320X-S compatible NICs, SMC 9232, 9332, 9334 and compatibles, Davicom DM9102 and compatibles, RealTek 8139 and compatibles, EtherExpress Pro/10, Pro/100B and compatibles, and NE2000 and compatibles. The installation can set up a boot splash if the user installs the bsplash package in the extra diskset. Also, several drivers can be downloaded and installed such as the VIA sound card driver and USB drivers. The link for the Small ISO is: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/torrents/FreeDos-Boot-CD-BinOnly-2005-08-04.iso.torrent and the link for the Large ISO is: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/torrents/FreeDos-Boot-CD-SrcIncl-2005-08-04.iso.torrent The delta patch for the Small ISO is at: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/deltas/FreeDos-Boot-CD-BinOnly-2005-07-19-2005-08-04.iso.delta and the delta patch for the Large ISO is at: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/deltas/FreeDos-Boot-CD-SrcIncl-2005-07-19-2005-08-04.iso.delta (BTW, the delta files can be applied with xdelta for Windows or Unixes) The new md5sums are: 57470686e8aa378173c6c3c94ff5658d *Small ISO 77a6f253634e1d82f5f6502e2aa293f0 *FDBOOTCD.iso The new readme reads: The files available here are: The small ISO The large ISO md5sums These files are intended for testing only at this point as they are largely untested and likely have many problems to be worked out. For those just looking to to a basic install with updated packages this should be fine, but there are no guarantees. The small ISO: This is the file that most people will be wanting. This is a FreeDOS Install/LiveCD with the Base, Edit, Lang, Util, and Net disksets, in addition to an 'Extra' diskset with many other useful programs. This is almost half the size of the large ISO because it lacks ANY source packages. If you only want some source packages, it is probably best to download them seperately. The large ISO: This is the file that mostly developers will be wanting. This is a FreeDOS Install/LiveCD with all disksets in addition to the 'Extra' diskset and 'SRC_EX' diskset which consists of many useful programs and their sources. This is almost double the size of the small ISO because it contains ALL of the source packages. Again, if you only want some source packages, it is probably better to download them seperately. This ISO is available for GPL compliance. md5sums This file contains the md5 hashes for the above two files so that you can check to make sure that the files were downloaded correctly. Both CDs contain updated packages including the latest HTML Help binary compiled with kitten, Devload 3.15, OSPlus Editor 2.1.1, MPXPlay 1.52, HXRT 1.28.1, 7za 4.23, Format 0.91u, EMM386 2.04, HIMEM 3.11, OpenGEM 4.0 Update 3, FDXMS 0.94, and FDXMS286 0.03. The LiveCD portion of the CD-ROM contains useful software like the entire Base diskset, MPXPlay, 7za, Open Watcom, and games like Bolitaire and Jump'n'Bump. After installing FreeDOS from the CD-ROM, you can do several useful things not available from the original FreeDOS CD-ROM. You can update the kernel to the latest unstable kernel via wget by typing 'krnlupdt' at the command prompt if wget is installed. If you don't want a package installed anymore, you can remove it by typing 'fdpkg binary remove <pkgname>' for a binary package and 'fdpkg source remove <pkgname>' for a source package (example: 'fdpkg binary remove UDMA2'). If you want to install further software from the CD-ROM, set the 'cdrep' environment variable to your CD-ROM drive (set 'CDREP=D:'), then type 'fdcdrom <pkgname>' and it will find the package on the cdrom and install it (example: 'fdcdrom OWATCOM' to install Open Watcom). Enjoy Testing! Changelog Release 2 - Updated XCopy to kittenized version Added some humour in crynwr.bat Went UPX crazy \FREEDOS\LICENCES.TXT contains messages that allow distribution of certain programs. Fixed a major bug in fdpkg.bat Added CLOCK Added the MS Sidewinder Driver Added Mouskeys Added Joykeys Added Slowdown Added a USB4DOS installer Added a VIA sound driver installer Added an ASPI.SYS driver installer Added an F-Prot Installer Updated OpenGEM to Update 3 Updated GRUB4DOS to 0.4.1pre22 Added LSPPP to livecd and crynwr.bat Simplified wattcp.cfg Updated HXRT to 1.28.1 Fixed minor bugs Added boot splash package Added crynwr auto-configuration; also in livecd Release 1 - Initial release Todo - Add UHCI.EXE and OHCI.EXE to usb downloads. Add ARJ Make a games diskset if I find enough games to fill it. Make a drivers diskset if there are enough driver packages Add bootpong PCMCIA autodetection and driver download Something like a control panel and hardware setup wizard Known Bugs - In crynwr.bat, the line that says "if "%errorlevel%"=="0" set pktcmd=ethersl 0x60 > NUL" should say "if "%errorlevel%"=="0" set pktcmd=e100bpkt 0x60 > NUL" I might have forgotten to allow autosetup of F-Prot. If I did, just run fdpkg configure fprot to set it up. Enjoy! Blair Campbell -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. 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