Op 16-7-2011 5:50, Andrew Robins schreef: > To partly answer my own questions earlier: > 1) How do I install kernell.XXXX? > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27324018 > - yup, I tried a straight over-write when the update was released, but > over the last week the filesystem gradually corrupted to a point that > CHKDSK (0.9) wouldn't repair. Assuming that a straight over-write was > OK, maybe ye olde HD is dying but it checks OK with WinXP apps. Will run > UBCD to confirm drive status and repair. > 2) Add folder and files to ISO image? > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27340846 > - When I'm not in PuppyLinux (which has excellent ISO remastering and > burning tools), in XP I like to use 7-zip to manually edit the ISO, and > burn with CDBurnerXP - that can leave the burned ISO "open" for further > edits, like Puppy. My question is WHERE in the iso filestructure do I > place the new updates? I didn't get any clues from what has been posted > earlier with the updates concerned - could someone please post a How To, > for us Dummies, please? > > Cheers :) >
ad 1) : use the FAT32 kernel, simply overwrite. FAT16-kernel might have some issues as was reported, but hasn't been verified yet. ad 2) : FreeDOS 1.0 has a simple structure: \FREEDOS\PACKAGES\BASE\*.ZIP for updating/overwriting BASE packages. If you instead only add packages, also modify \FREEDOS\PACKAGES\base.1 textfile and add "program : Y" in case you added \FREEDOS\PACKAGES\BASE\PROGRAM.ZIP The test ISO for 1.1 which I released has updated packages, but it's an ISO inside of an ISO. If your software is that flexible, extract the inner ISO, open it to update files, save it, then put it back in the outer ISO (or not, it's optional, both ISO files should be self-booting anyway). For my own convenience, and that of everyone else, I'm also working on creating an UPDATE script so the contents of ISO file can be modified, followed by generating a new ISO file from that. How that final ISO file is used, is up to the user himself. USB sticks come in handy for storing them in case people lack FAT partition(s) on their harddisk. There's DOS CD writing software also but that tends to depend on ASPI drivers for which there's no general solution besides downloading a vendor's specific driver, which isn't 100% legal (and which we thus also can't bundle with FreeDOS 1.1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
