On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 14:11 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: Then link to the sites that have reliable boot images this way people don't have to spend too much time looking.
Rich... > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ricardus Vincente > <wizardofg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Would someone please remind me about why there isn't a boot floppy > > image in the FreeDOS web site that actually has FreeDOS on it? Seems > > like it would be a really easy thing to do, and for that small > > percentage of people who want to bring life to an old machine that can't > > boot from CD, it would be super helpful. > > 1). Most people don't use floppies anymore. Either their machines lack > the drive or they lack floppy disks or their favorite OS doesn't > support USB floppy drives or they prefer booting CD-R (EDIT: why > didn't you try Smart Boot Manager???) or USB drives or they can't be > bothered or .... > > 2). "Really easy" ... sure, but keeping it up-to-date is a bit more > tedious, esp. for little gain. It's really easy to whip up something > crappy, a bit harder to do it right where it covers everything > (various floppy sizes, cpus, RAM requirements, peripherals, docs, > sources, etc). > > 3). "Small percentage" ... literally almost nobody has complained so > far! Keep in mind that volunteers are extremely low, which is why it > took so long for FD 1.1 to come out (thanks, Bernd!). Most of us > prefer contributing to other things. > > 4). There ARE floppy images, as mentioned, just slightly moldy. Most > of us make do with old stuff and manually install. :o) > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/balder/balder10.img > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/odin/odin060/fdodin06.8088.zip > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/floppy/img/base/install.img > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img > > https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/BARE_DOS.ZIP?attredirects=0 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
