Hello Don, > Jerome, this is not an installer issue, it occurs following an otherwise > successful install and reboot. I think it is a DOSLFN/Memory Management/SHELL > issue. It's a bug that has been around for a long time and the only way I > have gotten rid of it is to forgo DOSLFN. > > On another note, I am in need of a generic DOS program installer, V8 looks > like what I want, perhaps after FD 1.2 is released you could contribute such > a tool to the repo?
V8 is included in the FDI Preview development builds and will ship with FreeDOS 1.2. It is also available on the FreeDOS repo. However, the latest version is always available on http://up.lod.bz A little bit of back story on the birth of V8Power Tools. Basically, Jim wanted the FreeDOS installer to be a batch file that used utilities that were nicer than using the standard choice command. So, hum a set of utilities that can be used from any batch file to create a fairly nice UI. Ones that are not to difficult to use. Require no hard drive space for storing data. Use no ram for storage. So, I gave it some thought and figured sure I can do that. So, V8 was born to make a nicer batch file interface. Everything in FDI that the user sees and interacts with is powered by V8. Except FDIMPLES. V8 could do the detailed package selection stuff in advanced mode. But, it was quicker and easier just to build a program to modify a package list and give it back to FDI. Everything else including package list processing, custom theming, multi-language support and the rest is done through batch logic, V8 and a couple other command line tools. vecho is really nice for doing multicolored text output. Things like "vecho /fRed this is red /FGray and /Fyellow this is yellow." A lot of things can been accomplished with the V8 toolset. For example. I use it as the backbone for building the Preview releases. With one command 'mkFDI all', a very complex 15 minute long process starts building a release from scratch. Takes the raw source files and repo cd packages to make the boot floppy and both USB images. Parsing package lists, pulling data from index files..... It's probably more complex than the actual installer. But, it is not as flexible as FDI. Anyhow, a general program installer? Won't a zip package that is compatible with FDNPKG and FDINST be sufficient? Jerome ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785111&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
