There are many different reasons why people would want to install FreeDOS (if they get to know it). „ Different" like in „different people“. The needs and equipments are different and the mixture of technical generations should not restrain FreeDOS, IMHO, to „retro computing“ and nostalgia only. Nostalgia is very much ok and brings up new and other thoughts, too. But there is 2021, too. I understand that there is a difference when installing on to Harddisk and booting, or just having a USB Stick and using it on top of Linux or Windows. It depends, as I say, on what people want, and - what they could want if the just knew…
Documentation for FreeDOS should include CAVEATS about what would be more complicated to achieve or maybe impossible at all. (See the discussion about cheap printers, the missing concept of „drivers“, the whole USB complex, the combination of old+ new hardware, ports … The importance of BIOS for FreeDOS...) I know that this is not the responsibility of those who keep FreeDOS alive and continue working on it, to provide such infos, tips, tricks and documentation. Maybe there are books about it out there, or concise info. But the whole tragedy with forums, blogs, lists is that valuable information is scattered. I am saying this because I can’t spend too much time as a ordinary user going in circles to find out that my expectations, based on the consumer approach we now have, were wrong regarding DOS. And I have seen e.g. Bret Johnson giving his advices on USB with great patience a couple of times repeating in short time. He did a great documentation on his USB utils, and Eric provided a List with other USB utils, so this seems a returning issue which could be summed up once and for a while on the website? It is, no doubt, great to find out how things worked and are working in computing, but not everybody has the background and technical knowledge, or is willing to try to find out non trivial (historical) details. Could anyone recommend me some good, working documentation on the caveats, issues, impossible things, and „best practice models“ to use Freedos today? Could this be linked to the FreeDos site? Included on the installation FreeDos CD/USB / liveCd. (By the way, I guess that when I use a USB external CD Drive this might be the problem that neither 1.2 nor 1.3 could „find packages“ and exited…?) Regards, Thomas > Am 22.04.2021 um 10:16 schrieb Bryan Kilgallin <kilgal...@iinet.net.au>: > > Thanks, Jerome: > > Thanks for your efforts. > >>> I agree that there should be documentation about how the >>> install process works which can help you to push it a bit >>> when it gets stuck at some point. Of course the documents >>> should be available online, also outside the install disk. >> Better documentation would be nice. But, I’ve only got so >> much spare time. > > I like documentation! As to whether or not I attempt something. > -- > members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
