HI, > On Feb 9, 2021, at 1:53 PM, Carsten Strotmann <cars...@strotmann.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've installed FreeDOS 1.3rc3 on an 5x86 machine with 3 1/2" floppy > last weekend. > > The initial installation (manual) was smooth (partitioning, formatting > drive C:, installing DOS kernel und command.com). > > Then I wanted to install some additional packages. I did not want to > use the installer. The FreeDOS packages are in "zip" archive format, > nice > and easy. > > But while the provided FreeDOS boot floppy does contain "zip.exe", > neither "unzip.exe" nor "unzip16.exe" were available to uncompress > additional > packages. > > I propose to add "unzip16.exe" to the boot floppy to allow easy > bootstrapping additional packages. > > Using "unzip16.exe", it should be possible to install the DPMI-Host > stub and the 32bit "unzip.exe" (if needed), while still allowing 16bit > machines to install additional packages. > > Greetings > > Carsten
While FreeDOS packages are stored in standard zip archives, there is some additional things to be considered. For example, a programs binaries may be stored in an archive under a BIN directory. If you extract such an archive, it with place them in a BIN dir. However, that is not really their intended place. I highly recommend using a FreeDOS package manager to install additional FreeDOS packages. Such as FDNPKG, FDINST or the front end UI provided by FDIMPLES. When the package manager extracts such a zip, it will automatically place the BIN files in %DOSDIR%\BIN (usually FREEDOS or FDOS). The package managers have the additional ability to remove programs that are no longer needed. For example… fdinst install d:\util\pgme.zip fdinst remove pgme I hope this helps. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
