Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Willi, > On Jan 19, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > OK, if the diskette is kept, what about the following idea: > > Simply add a sentence in the readme file that the diskette will not start a > live environment but only an installation. This says everything even to >

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
, January 19, 2022 at 3:04 PM From: "Jerome Shidel" To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy   Hi Willi     On Jan 19, 2022, at 7:39 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:    Hi to all, did you e

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Jerome Shidel
realize it would break there current operating system. But, it is now the year 2022 and based on how most people run and use FreeDOS and other DOS platforms, such additional measures just are not warranted. A single warning by the installer is sufficient. > Willi > > :-) Jerom

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
.   @Jerome: sorry, but I think this is an important point for discussing - and not distributing the diskette.   Willi     Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 12:46 PM From: "Jerome Shidel" To: "FreeDOS Developers" Subject: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy Hello all,

[Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-18 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello all, The LiveCD menu also contains a Boot from floppy disk entry. Do we really need to keep this option on the menu? A user can just insert a floppy disk and boot it without having the CD inserted. I think the use case for this option is very low. Removing it would problem only be a