Hi Jerome, > Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources
Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, I prefer to have the option to install + PACKAGES with sources. Then I can unzip only those sources that I need, instead of all of them at the same time. Also, I would hope that people understand that FULL will be 100s of MB while BASE gives you everything you loved in MS DOS times plus a lot more while still needing only a few dozen MB space :-) In other words, I hope people will see that both FULL and BASE are nice choices. You could disable the FULL install and show a message why, if there is enough space for BASE but not for FULL. You could do for example the following: Calculate sizes of BASE and FULL and if you really think it will help the sizes of either with sources. In all cases, assume 32 kB cluster size to be on the safe side. In other words, round UP to multiples of 32 kB. Then add 5 MB safety margin. And if desired, 2x the size of the old OS directory if "backup old OS" is active. If there is less space than calculated, warn the user that FreeDOS will probably not fit, but allow to continue nevertheless if the user decides to continue. If there is enough space, tell the user that the install will take circa PREDICTEDVALUE of FREESPACE and leave REMAININGVALUE or more free. Then the user can be happy to hear about the "or more" part :-) Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
