Re: [Freedos-user] I managed to install Freedos at last !

2008-05-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, > you are welcome to convert the *existing* packages to any > format you like, but don't expect everybody else to convert > packages into formats that you like. Maybe you misunderstood me... the fdupdate / fdpkg / textinst and install formats are all basically the same. This means that f

Re: [Freedos-user] I managed to install Freedos at last !

2008-05-19 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Eric, > As said in my previous mail, everybody is welcome to make > zips in fdupdate compatible format when there are updates > listed on freedos.org but not yet available on fdupdate. you are welcome to convert the *existing* packages to any format you like, but don't expect everybody else to

Re: [Freedos-user] I managed to install Freedos at last !

2008-05-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) > DOS has not package manager like most Linux Distros. You can NOT use > your Linux package manager to download software for DOS. Freedos does have a package manager, but installing a package in freedos is almost the same as unzipping the zip with the package in the fdos directory :-). So

Re: [Freedos-user] I managed to install Freedos at last !

2008-05-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Alexandru, > I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers > me only some options at startup and then only the command prompt. This is exactly what DOS always does :-). Of course you can install programs which automatically start at boot. For that, add them to your autoexec

Re: [Freedos-user] I managed to install Freedos at last !

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Alexandru Fira schrieb: > I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers me only some > options at startup and then only the command prompt. What should I do to > install programs and search the Web ? How can I put files into the computer > under Freedos from a CD ? Someone els

[Freedos-user] I managed to install Freedos at last !

2008-05-19 Thread Alexandru Fira
I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers me only some options at startup and then only the command prompt. What should I do to install programs and search the Web ? How can I put files into the computer under Freedos from a CD ? I also can access the Freedos partition from