I hope it's not too premature to say 'w00t!' :-)
Blair Campbell wrote: > After finally resolving that Florian's hard disk trashing problem was > related to LBACache, I think that 1.0 can be released as long as > LBACache isn't loaded during the install process. > > The upcoming release features 100% powerbatch prompts and better > language selection (top 10 languages presented first, with a 'More > Options' option to select the others. > > The installer detects automatically which drives are suitable to be > installed to and gives the user a choice between them. (Which happens > to depend on SET /E by the way which turns out to be extremely useful > in this instance :-)) If they want to create a new partition, they > can run one of the fdisk variants included. (XFdisk, SPFdisk, or > Fdisk). > > Detecting whether a partition needs to be formatted or not is now > better than it was. Of course, I was also thinking that there could > be a menu option to format the destination drive anyways if the user > so wishes. > > The latest EMM386 (2.23) and DEFRAG (1.0) releases will be included > and the HTMLHelp docs will be completely revamped and updated. If I > have time (which I really should), I should also update the install > readme's and try to eliminate any occurances of 'Beta 9' from the rest > of the distribution (it now says 1.0 Final in the most-viewed places > at least). > > Since FreeCOM 0.84pre2 has become quite stable recently, it will be > included, and 0.82 pl3 MIGHT find its way in as a backup in case any > users would prefer legacy (but possibly better-working) versions. > > I think that's it for now... oh and the ctty nul thing that some > people complained about in postinst.bat is gone now, so you in fact > can see the messages that some things want to print :-). > > -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
