Op 18-12-2011 23:31, Pete Batard schreef:
1. I am the developer of Rufus [1], which is a DOS-bootable USB flash
drive creation utility for Windows. One of the versions of Rufus embeds
FreeDOS (kernel + freecom) for installation as the default DOS, in lieu
of the WinMe DOS that can be extracted from diskcopy.dll.
I've recently learned about your Rufus program from the Reboot.pro
forums, it seems quite interesting indeed. Would likely be a nice
addition from ReactOS (which you made use of already) but as that's GPL2
while your program is GPL3 that won't be possible I guess.
3. All the machines I have tried so far report the CHS vs LBA computed
mismatch warnings. Considering that first time FreeDOS users might be
put off because of these benign warnings, I would very much like to
avoid them.
There's a list of warnings indeed. A big one at that, especially when
using syslinux's nopassany directive to hide physical disk drive units.
Could this patch be considered for the mainline tree then?
I can't answer this, as I'm no developer. It could be an interesting
addition for kernel 2041 if any kernel maintainer is still active
occasionally.
PS: is there a reason why one must have an AUTOEXEC.BAT present, even a
blank one, to avoid the prompts for datetime in FreeCOM? What is the
purpose of mandatory prompting for those?
Remove your CMOS battery and you'll see. Basicly, ancient machines often
had no battery and yet needed to have a time and date set. I guess
FreeDOS follows MSDOS design in this aspect.
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