Hi Jerome, thanks for your answers! Of course it would be cool if a live USB image would be automatically treated correctly by virtual computers, but I do not know how much or little a VMDK is needed.
Pity that boot BIOS bugs are so different that one needs at least two boot style images to cover the ISO domain! > The floppy will not emulate a CD-ROM drive and > mount an ISO as a disc. It would be cool if it included the drivers for that and a readme. Doing it automatically would be too complicated, because you do not know what exactly users would like to use as strategy, but I think it is common that people are able to drop an ISO on a FAT drive as part of the preparations for installing a FreeDOS system on a computer without CD/DVD drive. > At present, the floppy loads UDVD2 to be able to access > any present CD/DVD drives. The floppy is limited to supporting > drives that UDVD2 supports in it’s default configuration. While UDVD2 is versatile in drive support, I hope you also add UHDD for fast caching? This would of course also be good to have on the ISO and USB images :-) Users with different tastes can still use lbacache, cdrcache and tickle after installation if they like. > The installer program (FDI) is identical across all media > ... For a batch based program, FDI is fairly flexible :-) > To my knowledge, there has been no demand for a lite CD version. How about having the "lite" choice of packages pre-installed in the "live" part of the CD / DVD, while having the "full" set of packages zipped? It would make the download a bit larger but use less RAMDISK space for actually using DOS? > In 1.2, the lite USB included both the BASE and FULL install package > sets. However, It did not include all of the EXTRA and uninstalled > packages that came on the big USB and CD media. So how large were BASE, FULL and EXTRA, respectively, both in compressed and in installed form? And what are the top, say, 5 largest FULL packages in 1.3, how much space would be needed to install FULL when skipping those? > The USB images rely strictly on the BIOS to be able to use > a attached USB drive to emulate an internal drive and boot > them as a hard disk. I think there was some variation on how well BIOSes worked with that? Some might work better with ZIP DRIVE geometry, for example? Of course if you can use more LBA and less CHS in the boot process and in DOS, things might be more stable and exotic kernel and boot sector config options might help with that, configurable via special SYS options ;-) Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
