> > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Brandon Taylor <donnie126_2...@hotmail.com> > wrote: >> >> As much as I hate to concede, I must. I have found a critical passage on >> the FreeDOS website >> which, in my eyes, discourages further experimentation: >> >> “FreeDOS is a complete operating system. If you choose to install this on >> your computer, >> you may overwrite the operating system you have now (for example, >> Windows.) If this is not >> what you intend, please stop now.”
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for > inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing > OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS. > > Perhaps it needs to mention that VMs (e.g. QEMU) are a much safer > alternative. > Yes, this warning exists because I received about a dozen complaints from very unhappy people after the 1.1 distribution. These people downloaded FreeDOS, went through the install process, and were surprised they had wiped out their Windows partition. So I put a note on the http://www.freedos.org/download/ page that let people know this might wipe out their C: drive. The complaints stopped after that, but it didn't seem to dent our number of downloads each week. I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
