Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Mercury Thirteen
That's exactly what I mean. I understand there is no such thing as a 32 or 16 bit package, per se, but the program inside will be one or the other - or a "fat binary" containing both. On 10/21/2015 11:19 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Am 22.10.2015 um 00:19 schrieb Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > >> I keep s

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Am 22.10.2015 um 00:19 schrieb Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > I keep seeing everybody refer to 32-bit packages and FD(N)PKG. > I don’t think using them alone would be keeping with what Jim > desires for the OS Did you take a look into the packages? If I understand it correctly these are just zips wi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi, at the risk of being controversial: > >>> I do know that the new version needs to support 16bit >>> legacy systems. >> >> The installer certainly do. FDNPKG being 16bit sure would be "cool", >> but I don't see it happening any time soo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > > On 10/21/2015 8:31 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> ... >> Basically, the new installer uses a list of packages for BASE and ALL >> binaries, and >> a list for BASE and ALL sources. >> >> I did not know how the packages in 1.2 are go

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
I can help assemble the distro. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > On 10/21/2015 8:31 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > ... > > Basically, the new installer uses a list of packages for BASE and ALL > binaries, and > > a list for BASE and ALL sources. > > > > I did not k

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Mercury Thirteen
On 10/21/2015 8:31 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > ... > Basically, the new installer uses a list of packages for BASE and ALL > binaries, and > a list for BASE and ALL sources. > > I did not know how the packages in 1.2 are going to be handled when it comes > to > source versus binary only. Wh

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Mercury Thirteen
On 10/21/2015 12:45 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 21/10/2015 02:32, Mercury Thirteen wrote: >> Since the link Mateusz provided is complete and current, all one would >> have to do is download all the package ZIPs and mesh them to the >> installer, correct? > That's correct. No need even to download

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-10-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:32 PM, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > > Jerome, perhaps you and I both can work together on this to make things > go faster. Thats a possible idea. > > Since the link Mateusz provided is complete and current, all one would > have to do is download all the package ZIPs and