[Freedos-user] entering into the command-line as fast as possible

Hello list. I am new to Freedos :-) Back in the old days of MS-DOS i was used that after booting a PC with a DOS-floppy, the command line was shown. Under FreeDos, I am asked to install to harddisk, or create drive C: Question: What is the fastest approach (after FreeDos is started from CD-ROM)

Re: [Freedos-user] entering into the command-line as fast as possible

Hi Joe, the difference is that you use some INSTALL disk with FreeDOS. You want to use a BOOT disk instead :-) That gives you all the software on the boot disk, without having to install first and without having to abort the install... You can try metados or brezel or similar floppy distros. If

Re: [Freedos-user] entering into the command-line as fast as possible

Hi, On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/ > contains metados and several other older distros. No, it actually doesn't. About 1.5 years ago, Jim Hall removed (well, "hid") all the

Re: [Freedos-user] metados networked freedos distro by rugxulo available

I have a real simple solution ... Test more or repackage things without altering them so that more testing is not needed. My UPXed binaries are almost the same size and don't have that horrible side effect. That's because I recognize the value of testing on a variety of targets and I accept

Re: [Freedos-user] metados networked freedos distro by rugxulo available

Rugxulo, Your thickness amazes me at times. I provided a UPXed version of all of the mTCP programs back in 2013. It works just fine, even on the slowest 4.77 8088 machine that I own. I'm objecting to your blindly re UPXing it in such a way that the executable takes 21x longer to load on the

Re: [Freedos-user] metados networked freedos distro by rugxulo available

Hi, I'm not sure how you're missing the point here nor why this is such a big deal to you. This is very small potatoes. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > > Disclaimer: I understand that once I release something into the wild, there > is not much I

Re: [Freedos-user] entering into the command-line as fast as possible

You might want to try my "all_cd" live cd (443M). It comes with all the latest FreeDOS packages, boots directly into a shell, and allows to install FreeDOS on hdd if one wishes to. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/all_cd.iso Mateusz On