Eric, > I think that FreeDOS should also be more "bit-exact" and mention > "(only 32 bit useable due to MBR partitioning schema limitations)" > along with the LBA48 comment. Might also create feedback from > people who want to help to implement or test GPT partitions :-)
"Zounds good" to me! > There is indeed a dilemma about whether to call MS DOS 7 a DOS > or not. AFAIK it was never available separately ... If you go to <http://ms-dos7.hit.bg/> and download their 2-diskette V7.10 MS-DOS set, then write both diskettes and do an "install" of then (omitting actually writing IO.SYS, MS-DOS.SYS, etc.), you will note it "Sure LOOKS like!" a system which was once "available" from our much-admired "Gates & Co."!! > Wengier Wu's MS-DOS 7 variant has a licensing issue ... "So what??", as I noted in my prior post. At least 18 years have gone by since Gates & Co. declared "DOS is dead!", and no lawyers I know of have EVER gone-after any V7.10 users and providers! > LZ-DOS according to my google translate of http://dos.nm.ru/ is > only a kernel, freeware provided as-is by JSC. Can be used with > the userspace tools and drivers of other DOS variants, and > generally sounds interesting. Which is why the above website I noted may in fact be more help! >> Luchezar Georgiev offered his multi-DOS "boot" diskette, with an >> "LZ-DOS" option. "LZ-DOS" is really V7.10 MS-DOS as a "VER" ... > > You mean LZ DOS is an improved rip of the MS DOS 7 kernel? ... No, it is more likely only a "renamed" copy of V7.10's kernel, as it functions identically to the kernel in Wengier's files. >> I believe Lucho's or Wengier's V7.1 MS-DOS systems can still be down- >> loaded from Internet sources. They are NOT "bundled" with Win/95 or >> any other DOS Windows system. Lucho's and Wengier's systems provide >> an "independent" V7.1 MS-DOS, which is still very useful. > > That is not a very good proof of MS DOS being available stand-alone. > Ignoring licenses, I could upload any arbitrary subset of files from > any commercial operating system and then claim that this subset is > available as individual operating system online... So while you are > correct - even Windows 9x provides a button to make a DOS boot disk > on floppy - that DOS 7.x CAN be installed separately, I would still > not advertise it as a recommended DOS-with-LBA on the FreeDOS page. I am not recommending that FreeDOS "advertise" or support ANY other DOS variants -- I am simply saying that V7.10 MS-DOS is in fact still available, as at-least the website I note above should prove to you. > It would be fair to mention on our homepage that "the DOS subsystem > of Win 9x, also called MS DOS 7" does have support for LBA, though. "Zounds good", also! >> I believe the FreeDOS "main page" should be made a bit more ACCURATE! > > I agree! AMAZING, you and I finally DO agree on something! "Saints be praised"! Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
