> On Jul 6, 2019, at 10:33 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> […]
> Although I had chosen "Install all packages with sources", it is unclear
> sources was installed.
> At first I have searched some games on installed hard disk but found none.
> Until I realized that I had to use FDIMPLES to install packages present on
> hard disk, but not really installed.
Yes, that can be a little confusing. But, here is how to think about it…
BASE is a minimal set of packages to provide MS-DOS compatibility.
ALL is a much larger FULL installation of FreeDOS and provides many more
packages.
However, the CD-ROM and Larger USB stick image also provide hundreds of
megabytes of additional EXTRA packages that are not installed. These are never
installed with BASE or ALL and are provided on the installation media for user
convenience.
That being said… If you run the installer in advanced mode, you have an
additional option to perform detailed package selection through FDIMPLES at
install time.
As a side note. There are even versions of Windows that contain some extra
software and utilities on their install disc. However, you must manually hunt
down those programs and install them yourself.
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