Unattended 4.0-test1 is now available. You can download it from:
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/
SourceForge CVS is a little broken at the moment, so I rolled this
straight from my own development tree. What could go wrong?
The NEWS.txt entry looks like this so far:
======================================================================
** Changes in version 4.0 (????-???-??)
Switch to using FreeDOS for the boot disk. This is a big enough
change to warrant bumping the major version number. Please report
problems!
Use a 4000M FAT32 partition instead of a 2000M FAT16 partition for
initial installation partition.
Use FreeDOS fdxxms.sys instead of himem.sys as XMS provider. Should
be loads of fun.
Update to FreeDOS FORMAT 0.91m. Use its new "/a" switch, modelled
after the same switch in Microsoft's OFORMAT tool (see
<http://google.com/search?q=oformat+site%3Amicrosoft.com>). This
aligns the FAT clusters to a 4k boundary, so after NTFS conversion the
cluster size will be 4k instead of 512 bytes.
Changes to free up more conventional memory. Bundle umbpci.sys and
load it in config.sys (more fun). Load ifshlp.sys into high memory.
Invoke umb.com in autoexec.bat.
======================================================================
In other words, you should give this release a try if:
1) You have experienced memory problems or random hangs
2) You want to have 4K clusters (Microsoft's recommended size for
performance) on your primary NTFS partition
3) You have some spare time and want to help ensure that the next
release actually works for you
You will need to update your boot disk (obviously) and also the
following files in Z:\dosbin:
install.pl
format.exe
smartdrv.exe
There are some other small changes, but these files are the critical
ones.
Note that the FreeDOS kernel in here has not actually been released;
it was built from the 2003-Dec-30 (or thereabouts) kernel CVS tree.
But it does work, at least on the hardware I have handy.
Note that this release may eat your disk. But since that's kind of
what Unattended is for anyway, it shouldn't be a problem.
Please send me any success/failure reports. Especially failure.
- Pat
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