Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-29 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Could be used with software with restrictive licenses. Okay, I get it. Read: Antivirus stuff and VIDE-CDD. What else? By the way, Bernd just never got a reply from Acer about the driver, but they never said that you cannot put it on CD either. What is the license of

[Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Carlos, I am really against any illusions that NETWORKING would be easier than CDROM. But do you think it could be done? Supporting NE2000/PCI with DHCP will already support SOME percentage of PCs. You write that QEmu and VMWare have a virtual network card, is it ne2000 compatible? But

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-21 Thread Blair Campbell
The program I use to display the splash screen actually converts the GIFs to RAW files, so in the end there is no licence problem. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: New FreeDOS Install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: Some new ISOs are available for download. These ISOs update the release of OpenGEM to the release that fixes the initial bugs found in release 4. Here are the torrents: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/torrents/FreeDos-Boot-CD-BinOnly-2005-07-19.iso.torrent

[Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Carlos, DOS IS NOT A NETWORKING OS... I would like to say. I think that the new distro idea about a collection of batch files is really good. It looks similar to portage/gentoo and freebsd/ports way of installing packages and maybe a it can be a revival for the fdpm project. - Make

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Blair Campbell
That would be okay IF there is real use for it. So far, everybody has been able to install their commercial software using the INTENDED way of install, i.e. buy the software or download it from the homepage of the vendor, then follow the install instructions. I do not see why we should take

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Carlos
Hi Eric, Em Quinta 21 Julho 2005 02:57, Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Carlos, DOS IS NOT A NETWORKING OS... I would like to say. I think that the new distro idea about a collection of batch files is really good. It looks similar to portage/gentoo and freebsd/ports way of installing packages

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Carlos
Hi Eric, I'm sorry about the last e-mail, just clicked the send button without even write something. I apreciate your opinion Eric, you know that, the thing is I got excited with the idea of a new installer. It would be really, really nice/cool/super to see it done. :-) Blair: By ansi I

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Blair Campbell
Blair: By ansi I mean ansii art. Oh. Mostly what I'm looking for is graphics art for displaying while autoexec.bat and config.sys are loading, but if they could be converted to a gif somehow, they could be useful. --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

2005-07-20 Thread Carlos
Hi Eric Em Quinta 21 Julho 2005 02:57, Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Carlos, DOS IS NOT A NETWORKING OS... I would like to say. Yep! I think that the new distro idea about a collection of batch files is really good. It looks similar to portage/gentoo and freebsd/ports way of installing

[Freedos-user] Re: New FreeDOS Install CD

2005-07-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Some new ISOs are available for download. These ISOs update the release of OpenGEM to the release that fixes the initial bugs found in release 4. Here are the torrents: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/torrents/FreeDos-Boot-CD-BinOnly-2005-07-19.iso.torrent