> On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:58:30 -0500, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> Shouldn't take much. > > > > Correct, but if your going to calculate stuff, should be accurate.
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > Also, whoever would take on doing this semi-pointless task, should > remember to take cluster size into account, since disk space occupied by > an unpacked zip will be bigger (sometimes by much) than the sum of all > its uncompressed bytes. > Rather than add code to compute how much space is needed to install FreeDOS, wouldn't it be much easier to mention in the installer's "welcome" screen (and in the documentation) that "Installing FreeDOS Base requires __MB, and installing everything requires __MB"? I'm confident users can easily figure out how much space they should reserve to install FreeDOS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
