Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21--2004 06:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA Hi, I wrote 2 tools which might be useful for the installer: EA http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ EA tiny-file-append-concat.zip EA Usage: concat somefile.xyz will append the contents of

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: In addition, OSCHECK searches the boot sector for typical kernel file names. When such a string is found, OSCHECK looks for the corresponding file on disk. Both on-screen messages and returned errorlevels give you detailled information about which FORMAT/SYS tool was probably

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Bernd Blaauw escribió: still SYS should have some additional possibilities, like WARNING the user. I remember my SYS C:..while C: contained Win2000 bootloader..bye bye Win2000 installation :( A bit offtopic, well, I don't know much about the NT loader, but it always surprised to me how fragile

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: A bit offtopic, well, I don't know much about the NT loader, but it always surprised to me how fragile is the whole installation of a robust operating system like WinNT can be easily trashed in a few seconds, by just SYS:-ing whenever it loads from an existing

[Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I wrote 2 tools which might be useful for the installer: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ tiny-file-append-concat.zip Usage: concat somefile.xyz will append the contents of somefile.xyz to the end of target.bin (name target.bin is hardcoded). Sometimes better than copy