Hi, I worked on Svarog86 during past days, and released a new version yesterday. It contains the most indispensable tools now (all carefully picked to work fine on ancient machines), a custom build of FreeCOM and the FreeDOS kernel, both tuned for 8086 and reasonable memory consumption, as well as patched support for correct handling of CGA cards inside FreeCOM.
http://svarog86.sourceforge.net Mateusz On 26/05/2015 21:04, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hello all, > > I was looking recently for an easy way to run FreeDOS on my 8086 > (meaning "grab an image from the internet, write it on a diskette and > boot"), but I noticed there is no such image available. > > There are many bootable diskettes with FreeDOS all over the internet of > course, but none of them is specifically designed to run on 8086-class > computers. I tested a few of them, and they either won't boot, or, if it > boots, a big part of included tools will make the computer crash, > freeze, or otherwise malfunction. > > This is why I decided to start my own "micro distribution" with FreeDOS, > targetted specifically to ancient 8086/8088 hardware. It's nothing very > ambitious really, my goal is to provide a set of boot disks on the most > common formats, that would: > - run on 8086/8088 computers > - provide a more or less up-to-date version of FreeDOS and tools > - make it possible to install FreeDOS to a hard disk > > The distribution is built in an automated way, so different disk formats > will always be consistent between each other. > > I named the distribution "Svarog86", and it's available here: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/svarog86 > > Current images contain are very, *very* basic for now: only a working > kernel + command.com and two or three tools. But now that I have a > working automated build system, I will be able to add tools to it in > incoming days. > > Mateusz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
